Apart from these considerations of national p attention must be given infrastructure, the decisions for special authorities, largely a matter for local authorities. which depending partly on the national between countries but also this field, there is a wide variety of attitudes, not only between communities, as a result of the autonomy of local authorities
In conurbations that are concerned about the environment, there is usually a tendency to encourage the development of public transport. It must be noted, however, that the development of public transport is not guarantee that consumers will shift transport modes, but can lead instead to an increase in total mobility, with only a slight fall in road traffic. To produce a real modal shift, measures must also be taken to restrict road traffic, as we shall see in the next section.