well organized public transportation provides numerous benefits to communities and individuals by lowering the unit costs of transport and easing access to different locations public transportation helps to reduce congestion and delays improving air quality and increasing productivity ie less time is wasted in traffic congestion litman public transport victoria thus better planning and integration of landuse planning with transportation planning is an important factor for sustainable urbanization the sdg s imperative to make cities more inclusive implies that cities need to move away from carbased travel to public and active modes of transportation such as walking and cycling with good intermodal connectivity