PLANNED COMMUNITIES, SELF-CONTAINMENT AND COMMUTING: A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
This paper examines the association between how self-contained new towns are and how their residents and workers commute, drawing upon experiences in the U.S., the U.K., metropolitan Paris and greater Stockholm. While American new towns are fairly self-contained, their commuting characteristics are largely indistinguishable from less-planned control communities. Britain's most recent new towns are highly balanced and self-contained, yet they are comparatively auto-dependent. By contrast, the rail-served new towns outside Paris and Stockholm are the least self-contained among the new towns studied; however, most external commutes are by rail transit or other non-auto modes. In general, there was an inverse relationship between self-containment and transit commuting in the European new towns studied. The paper concludes that other policies, like coordinated transit services, more strongly influence commuting choices among new town residents and workers than initiatives aimed at jobs-housing balance and self-sufficiency.
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Authors:
- Cervero, R
- Publication Date: 1995-8-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 1135-61
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Serial:
- Urban Studies
- Volume: 32
- Issue Number: 7
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0042-0980
- EISSN: 1360-063X
- Serial URL: http://usj.sagepub.com/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: City planning; Commuting; Development; New towns; Public transit; Residential areas; Travel patterns
- Uncontrolled Terms: Planned communities; Residential development
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom; United States
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00721237
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 23 1996 12:00AM