CHAPTER 6. UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF TRANSPORT POLICIES

Influencing overall traffic demand levels and providing less congesting ways of providing for movement are now seen as having both economic and environmental advantages. Although various parts of this package are now being implemented very rapidly, such implementation tends to be confined to only a few policy areas, partly due to insufficient agreement about the effects of possible policies. This chapter discusses a project to: (1) find out how policies could go wrong; (2) improve basic understanding of the process of individual and institutional response to policies; (3) use this understanding to assess the direct and indirect responses of travel behaviour; (4) reconsider the effectiveness of these policies in the light of more complex response patterns; and (5) suggest conditions under which the policies are more successful, and how they might be improved. The research methodology depends on longitudinal monitoring of changes in attitude and behaviour over time, with 'before and after' studies as the most important tool. The chapter considers, as examples, the unintended effects of park-and-ride, urban centre pedestrianisation, supermarket location, road construction, mobility restrictions, car ownership, and road pricing. Success and failure in transport policy are discussed, together with some lessons learned from the project, for example about mutual interactions between policies in different areas. For the covering abstract, see IRRD E101216.

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  E & FN SPON

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• Authors:
  • Goodwin, P B
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 114-29
• Serial:
  • TRANSPORT POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Publisher: E & FN SPON

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Before and after studies; Behavior; Decision making; Demand; Economics; Environmental protection; Evaluation and assessment; Improvements; Methodology; Motion; Policy; Research projects; Traffic congestion; Transportation; Travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic relief
• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9148: Before and after study; 9001: Behaviour; 2248: Decision process; 285: Demand (econ); 255: Economics; 2444: Environment protection; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9108: Improvement; 698: Journey; 9102: Method; 5483: Movement; 173: Policy; 8557: Research project; 631: Traffic relief; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00766843
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-419-23140-4
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Aug 2 1999 12:00AM