THE TRAVEL AND URBAN FORM IMPLICATIONS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

This paper looks at the impact of telecommunications technology on travel and urban form. Three potential impacts are identified: by substituting for travel, by stimulating new travel, and by making more efficient or rearranging travel. The author contends that all of these three types of effects could then have an impact on urban form. The author also points out that telecommunications will lead to increased decentralization, thus creating greater urban sprawl. Several points are discussed regarding that view, partly supporting and partly moderating it.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1993 Published By: Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis CA Remarks: Discussion paper for FHWA/LILP workshop Metropolitan America in transition: implications for land use and transportation planning, Sept. 9-10 1993 Washington, D.C
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Davis

  Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Authors:
  • Mokhtarian, Patricia L
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • Research report (University of California, Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies) ; UCD-ITS-RR-93-28
  • Publisher: University of California, Davis

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Telecommunications; Travel behavior

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00776310
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCD-ITS-RR-93-28
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM