NEW TRANSPORT POLICIES: WHAT CAN GO WRONG?

In recent years there have been profound developments in transport policy thinking, with a focus on traffic restraint, public transport, road pricing, traffic calming, environmentally friendly modes, priority to selected categories of traffic, interactions with land use, and revival of town centres. However, implementation has lagged well behind policy. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important reasons is the fear that the policies will not have their desired effect - for example, that town centre pedestrianisation may reduce commercial turnover, or road pricing may lead to greater traffic growth outside the charged area. The paper considers the main ways in which transport policies can go wrong, available evidence to assess how important the problem is, on-going research to strengthen this evidence, and what can be done to solve the problem. The work is supported by the ESRC, in a three year project being carried out jointly by TSU, Dr C Hass Klau of Environmental and Transport Planning, and Mr Matthew Quinn of the Department of the Environment. (A) This paper is also published as University of Oxford, Transport Studies Unit report 758. For the covering abstract see IRRD 863439.

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• Authors:
  • Goodwin, P B
• Conference:
  • TRANSPORT POLICY AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINAR F HELD AT THE PTRC EUROPEAN TRANSPORT, HIGHWAYS AND PLANNING 21ST SUMMER ANNUAL MEETING (SEPTEMBER 13-17, 1993), UMIST. VOLUME P368
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 233-41

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Land use; Planning; Policy; Road pricing; Traffic restraint; Transportation
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 356: Land use; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 240: Road pricing; 633: Traffic restraint; 1155: Transport; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00662300
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-257-0
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 28 1994 12:00AM