Managing Travel Demand: Applying European Perspectives to U.S. Practice

This report summarizes the findings of an International Technology Scanning Program scan on managing travel demand. The purpose of the scanning study was to assess European experience in managing the demand for automobile and truck travel through a variety of means, including traveler information, technology, improved modal options, pricing, and new institutional arrangements. The scanning program is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board. The scan team visited the following cities throughout Europe that have been pursuing programs and policies to reduce automobile demand: Rome, Italy; Stockholm and Lund, Sweden; Cologne, Germany; Rotterdam and Delft, Netherlands; and London, United Kingdom. The visit focused on both local efforts to manage demand within a metropolitan area and national research, policies, and programs to integrate demand management into planning, management, and operations of the transport system. While congestion is often the issue driving efforts to manage demand in the United States, European policies tend to also focus on air quality and sustainability objectives. The scan team developed a detailed set of implementation strategies aimed at disseminating the findings, conclusions, and transferable strategies to transportation professionals in the United States. The scan team learned that demand for travel can be managed at a number of points in the planning, management, and operations processes and that managing demand to improve travel time reliability necessarily involves enhanced travel choices, be they other modes, destinations, route, or time of travel.

• Record URL:
  • http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/traveldemand/
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2006-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Photos;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; State of the practice; Study tours; Sustainable development; Traffic congestion; Travel demand management
• Identifier Terms: International Technology Scanning Program
• Geographic Terms: Cologne (Germany); Delft (Netherlands); Europe; London (England); Lund (Sweden); Rome (Italy); Rotterdam (Netherlands); Stockholm (Sweden)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01029931
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 28 2006 4:30PM