Are vehicle travel reduction targets justified? Evaluating mobility management policy objectives such as targets to reduce VMT and increase use of alternative modes

This report investigates whether transportation policies should include targets to reduce vehicle travel and encourage use of alternative modes, called mobility management objectives. Such objectives are justified on several grounds: they help insure that individual short-term decisions support strategic goals, they provide numerous benefits, and they help prepare for future travel demands. Many mobility management strategies are market and planning reforms that increase transport system efficiency and equity. Mobility management criticism tends to reflect an older, automobile-oriented transportation planning paradigm which considers a limited range of objectives, impacts and options. More comprehensive analysis tends to favor mobility management. Appropriate mobility management can reduce vehicle travel in ways that minimize costs and maximize benefits to consumers and society.

• Record URL:
  http://www.vtpi.org/vmt_red.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Victoria Transport Policy Institute

  Victoria, British Columbia  Canada 
• Authors:
  • Litman, T
• Publication Date: 2009-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 26p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mobility; Modal shift; Policy; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Vehicle miles of travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Planning and Environment
• ATRI Terms: Mobility; Modal shift; Policy; Transport planning; Travel behaviour; Vehicle kilometre
• Subject Areas: Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01384678
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 4:48PM