Improving transport options for small towns

摘要

The transport needs of people living in New Zealand's medium-sized and smaller cities and towns are very different from those living in the nation's larger metropolitan areas. Recent research, headed by Massey University, has sought to build a better understanding of these non-metropolitan transport needs, so that ways can be found to meet them. Dr Christine Cheyne, from the Resource and Environmental Planning Programme at Massey University, says that in the past a lot of transport research and policy has focused on metropolitan areas (defined in the study as those local government areas that include one of the three main metropolitan cities, namely Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch).