Richard Forman presents a safe and more sustainable vision of road transport
On 3 May, Richard Forman from Harvard University, author of important works such as “Landscape Ecology” and “Road Ecology”, gave a presentation on hisrecent work in the field of ecology and planning of urban areas. The presentation took place at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment in Madrid as part of a meeting of the Working Group on Habitat Fragmentation Caused by Transport Infrastructure. Minuartia providestechnical support for this working group. In this lecture, Dr. Forman presented his vision for a new, safer transport system that would significantly reduce the impacts of roads on the environment (accidents, pollution, noise, habitat fragmentation, etc.). Thisfuturistic vision of a road network was described in a recent paper […]
