Adopting Policies on Spatial Planning, Public Transport Planning or Road Pricing to Influence Travel and Transport: What Can Be Expected?

For many years policy makers on spatial planning and transport planning aim to steer, guide, reduce or otherwise influence travel and transport. In this paper the authors look at the effects that some direct or more indirect policy strategies have on the development of travel and transport. The authors draw on earlier studies in this field and give an overview of findings and conclusions. In the field of spatial mobility policies, the authors will look at the results of the Dutch VINEX-policy and of the ABC-location policy for businesses and facilities. Furthermore, the authors will assess the effect of increasing public transport supply on travel patterns by asking if this will lead to substitution of car trips or merely to more travel. Which strategies are worthwhile and robust? Finally, the authors will look at road pricing. What can be achieved? What does it entail for the accessibility in the country? And how about regional differences in pain and effectiveness? The authors will show that the effect of spatial mobility policies on travel, transport and accessibility is modest. Concentration of urban development has a small but positive effect, in the sense that it reduces kilometers traveled and improves accessibility. The main effect of better public transport supply is better public transport accessibility and more use of public transport. The effect on car use, congestion and effects such as safety, emissions and noise is very limited. Auxiliary policies such as road pricing prove to be much more influential on travel behavior than spatial or infrastructural interventions. Road pricing will lead to a substantial decrease of car use, a reduction of congestion and positive effects on safety, noise and emissions.

• Record URL:
  https://aetransport.org/past-etc-papers/conference-papers-pre-2009/conference-papers-2010
• Corporate Authors:

  Association for European Transport (AET)

  1 Vernon Mews, Vernon Street, West Kensington
  London W14 0RL,    
• Authors:
  • Snellen, Daniëlle
  • Hilbers, Hans
• Conference:
  • European Transport Conference, 2010
  • Location: Glasgow Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Date: 2010-10-11 to 2010-10-13
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Bibliography; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: European Transport Conference, 2010 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Congestion pricing; Mobility; Policy making; Public transit; Road pricing; Spatial analysis; Traffic congestion; Travel behavior; Urban development
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01352995
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 2011 7:38AM