REDUCING VEHICULAR TRAVEL NEED THROUGH INCREASING TRAVEL EFFICIENCY

In Australia, all measures of vehicular travel, both passenger and freight, show large increases on a per capita basis over recent decades, with the growth almost entirely due to road travel. But because vehicular travel inevitably generates external costs these too have risen greatly. Decreases in both primary energy and materials consumption per capita in the advanced industrial countries suggest that the need for vehicular travel could decline if travel efficiency was increased. A definition of travel efficiency is developed, and means are explored by which travel efficiency might be increased (A).

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• Corporate Authors:

  Urban Policy and Research Incorporated

  GPO Box 2602W
  Melbourne, Victoria,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Moriarty, P
  • BEED, C
• Publication Date: 1989-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 157-163
• Serial:
  • URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • ISSN: 0811-1146

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Carbon monoxide; Costs; Economic efficiency; Economic factors; Economics; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Freight transportation; Fuels; Highway safety; Length; Mobility; Pollution; Transportation; Transportation modes; Travel; Vehicle miles of travel; Vehicle occupants; Vehicles; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 9001: Behaviour; 7391: Carbon monoxide; 224: Cost; 255: Economics; 263: Economics of transport; 5911: Efficiency; 213: Energy; 212: Energy conservation; 3850: Fuel; 741: Goods traffic; 698: Journey; 621: Journey to work; 6488: Length; 292: Mileage; 9105: Mobility (pers); 2453: Pollution; 1665: Safety; 1145: Transport mode; 1255: Vehicle; 292: Vehicle kilometer; 292: Vehicle mile; 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00606271
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 1991 12:00AM