ENCOURAGING TRANSPORT ALTERNATIVES: GOOD PRACTICE IN REDUCING TRAVEL

The amount of travel worldwide is steadily rising, and the aspiration to reduce it, especially car travel, is increasingly entering the EU policy agenda, and being addressed on all scales. Travel can be reduced by making fewer trips, decreasing the total distance made by trips, or moving to high-occupancy public transport. This book systematically reviews policies for reducing car-dependence and encouraging alternative modes. Much of its empirical research is based on six cities studied by the EU Dante project. Part I describes the most important types of measures to reduce travel, with evidence from a range of case studies, using organisational and operational measures, infrastructure interventions, financial levers, land-use planning, or technological measures, such as home delivery of goods and services, informatics, teleactivities, and teleworking, to reduce travel. Part II discusses how policy can be converted into action, by interpreting the knowledge and experience of good practice. It considers: (1) combinations of measures; (2) underlying mechanisms; (3) evaluating success; (4) transferability and comparability analysis; (5) barriers to implementation; and (6) barriers to realising travel reduction outcomes. Finally, it presents conclusions on the potential for achieving significant travel level reductions.

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• Authors:
  • Banister, D
  • Marshall, S
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 147 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demand; Financing; Land use; Length; Modal split; Planning; Policy; Prevention; Public transit; Technology; Transportation; Travel; Urban areas
• Identifier Terms: European Union
• Uncontrolled Terms: Growth rate; Modifications
• ITRD Terms: 285: Demand (econ); 8303: EU; 244: Financing; 265: Growth rate; 698: Journey; 356: Land use; 6488: Length; 675: Modal split; 9048: Modification; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 9149: Prevention; 744: Public transport; 3855: Technology; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00802789
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-11-702388-4
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 8 2000 12:00AM