TRANSPORT, LAND-USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. CHAPTER 6: REDUCTION OF CO2 EMISSIONS OF TRANSPORT BY REORGANISATION OF URBAN ACTIVITIES

The author summarises the debate surrounding urban density as a determinant of transport energy consumption and considers the use of models to guide the spatial reorganisation of metropolitan areas. A project is described in which a land use/transport model was used to explore the impacts of strategies to reduce transport-related carbon dioxide emissions by transport demand management in the metropolitan area of Dortmund. The region studied contained Dortmund itself and settlements within a 30-minute iso-chrone, a population totalling 2.3 million. The model is outlined and the scenarios described. These include various travel cost scenarios, travel speed scenarios and combination scenarios. It is concluded that there is potential in current European settlement patterns for reducing transport demand. For the covering abstract see IRRD 883195.

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• Authors:
  • WEGENER, M
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 103-24
• Serial:
  • TRANSPORT, LAND-USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon dioxide; Conferences; Fuel consumption; Land use; Pollutants; Regional planning; Transportation; Urban areas
• ITRD Terms: 7393: Carbon dioxide; 8525: Conference; 2442: Emission; 232: Fuel consumption; 356: Land use; 359: Regional planning; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Energy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00729646
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-7923-3728-X
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 26 1996 12:00AM