1. Encouraging active transportation: Landscape design can provide sidewalks, bike lanes, and trails that promote walking and cycling as viable means of transportation. These designs help support active lifestyles and decrease the reliance on cars as a primary means of transportation.
2. Promoting public transportation: Landscape design can play a role in public transportation systems by providing safe and accessible transit stops and interchanges. The design of these stops and stations can encourage their use, which in turn can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
3. Supporting electric vehicles: Landscape design can provide for the integration of electric vehicle charging stations in public parking areas and other locations, encouraging electric vehicle use.
4. Sustainable infrastructure design: Landscaping designs can aim at finding the best balance between streetscaping, traffic-calming measures, and parking/transportation alternatives. Sustainable infrastructure design can lead to creative solutions reducing reliance on single-occupancy cars and the expansion of transit-oriented development.
5. Promoting green spaces: Landscape design can help support sustainable transportation by creating green spaces accessible through walking or cycling trails. These green corridors can provide an alternative to using vehicles to reach recreation points and urban agriculture, include pedestrian-friendly streetscaping features.
Overall, landscape design can contribute immensely to the development of sustainable transportation by providing facilities and infrastructure that will promote walking, cycling, public transportation, and other practices that reduce the reliance on cars.
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