INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

Integrated Transportation Planning is a concept which suggests that a detailed package of environmental, social, economic and political tools is necessary to ensure the safe accessibility and mobility of people who wish to travel from one place to another. The notion of integrated transportation planning has steadily progressed over the years. It began with traditional transport planning, oriented toward automobile traffic engineering, then progressed to "multi-modal planning" to include public transit modes. It later broadened to include pedestrians, cycling, small vehicles and variable land use, and now extends furthermore to considerations of full environmental and cost impacts. Integrated transportation planning applies to rapidly urbanizing areas in growing economies and implies also that any environmental impacts should be minimized through comprehensive planning and implementation. Integrated transportation planning includes a number of elements with the principal ones being: Enhanced Accessibility and Mobility for all, Environmental Sustainability, Participatory Planning, Transportation Demand Management, Transportation Systems Management, Comprehensive Land Use Planning, and Least Cost Optimization. In a climate where traffic congestion, often unbearable air pollution, and ever dwindling energy supplies are becoming a major problem the world over, this paper considers blending specific elements to better achieve environmental and energy sustainability and to better serve the needs of people who wish to travel without impediment.

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  University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  Canada  S7N 0W0
• Authors:
  • Holloway, C W
• Conference:
  • Cooperation - Competition - Commercialization. Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Aylmer, Quebec, Canada
  • Date: 1995-5-14 to 1995-5-17
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 111-126
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Saskatchewan University, Canada
  • Publisher: University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • ISSN: 1183-2770

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Air pollution; Costs; Cyclists; Economic factors; Energy consumption; Environment; Environmental impacts; Land use; Land use planning; Mobility; Multimodal transportation; Optimization; Participatory management; Pedestrians; Political factors; Public transit; Social factors; Sustainable development; Traffic engineering; Transportation planning; Travel demand management; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Energy; Environment; Finance; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00797102
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 6 2000 12:00AM