TRANSPORT ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICIES FOR AUSTRALIAN CITIES: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING AUTOMOBILE DEPENDENCE

Transport energy conservation policies for Australian cities have been expanded and developed based on our book Cities and Automobile Dependence: An International Sourcebook. New evidence has been found that confirms the central concepts developed previously. The trends in gasoline use between 1960 and 1980 show that the more automobile-dependent were cities in 1960 then the more they became by 1980. Toronto is an exception, not showing the downward density and public transport trends evident in the other cities and providing a model for Australian cities in the next two decades. Other Canadian cities (Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver) were also shown to be more like European than US/Australian cities. Gasoline use by suburb in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney confirms that inner city areas are more European in their transport patterns and that the more outer suburban sprawl there is the more auto-dependent and gasoline-consuming is the city. The application of this work to State and Local Governments is made through a series of papers on transport planning critiques, rail-land use integration, increasing population densities and the philosophy of urbanism and urban planning. (Author/TRRL)

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  Murdoch University, Australia

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  Murdoch, Western Australia,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • NEWMAN, P
  • Kenworthy, J
  • Lyons, T
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 110 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cities; City planning; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Fuel consumption; Land use; Policy; Public transit; Strategic planning; Suburbs; Trend (Statistics); Urban areas; Urban development
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 8623: Data acquisition; 213: Energy; 212: Energy conservation; 356: Land use; 2885: Layout; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 335: Population; 744: Public transport; 354: Town planning; 6515: Trend (stat); 313: Urban area; 374: Urban development
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00620297
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86905-166-0
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 1992 12:00AM