LOCATION PLANNING FOR COMPANIES AND PUBLIC FACILITIES: A PROMISING POLICY TO REDUCE CAR USE

One promising instrument for reducing car travel is the coordination of land use and infrastructure planning. Traditionally, this coordination has been tried by encouraging high-employment densities near public transportation stations. A more sophisticated strategy is based on the observation that companies generate a mobility of persons and goods that varies with the type of company and, naturally, its location. Companies are classified according to their potential use of public transportation. The land use strategy presented essentially consists of locating companies with a high potential use of public transportation near public transportation facilities, and locating those with a low potential use near highway exits. The results of an empirical investigation into the relationship between the mobility generated by companies (the mobility profiles), the type of company, and the accessibility characteristics of the locations (the accessibility profiles) are presented. These profiles have been elaborated for practical use in regional planning by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. An overview of the main results of these studies is given: first, a tentative classification of firms is introduced; then, the typology of locations is defined and operationalized. Evaluation and demonstration results of the developed profiles are presented. It is concluded that, with the use of the profiles, more integrated and comprehensive policies for land use and transportation planning can be developed.

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• Authors:
  • Verroen, Erik J
  • Jansen, Gijsbertus R M
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 81-88
• Monograph Title: Transportation planning, programming, land use, and applications of geographic information systems
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1364
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Businesses; Coordination; Infrastructure; Land use; Location; Planning; Policy; Public buildings; Public transit; Regional planning
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Old TRIS Terms: Public facilities
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00626924
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309054036
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 23 1993 12:00AM