Subject(s): Urban transportation in Europe -- Urban transportation in North America -- Urban transportation policy in Europe -- Urban transportation policy in North America -- Transport Policies Of Government in Europe and North America; -- Urban transport crisis: an introduction -- Overview of urban transport systems and land use patterns in in European and Northern America -- Data reliability and comparability, demographic trends, travel behaviour, trends in urban land use patterns, urban transport problem, government transport policies -- Germany: conflict between automobility and environmental protection -- France: impossibility of accommodating the car and public transport in transport policies -- Netherlands: wise country overtaken by world trends -- Urban spatial structure -- Transport polices -- Italy: cities without policies -- Trends in Urban spatial structure and travel behaviour -- Political inability to implement policies -- Great Britain: failure of free market policies -- Eastern Europe: transport impacts of political revolution -- Canada: bridge between Europe and US -- Unites state : car dependent society -- Dealing with the urban transport crisis: comparative policy evaluation