Citation

May AD. Aust. Road Res. 1991; 21(2): 56-68.

Affiliation

Univ of Leeds

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Australian Road Research Board ARRB)

DOI

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Abstract

Several urban areas in the UK are now developing integrated transport strategies for tackling transport problems over the next 20 years. They are based on predictions of a growth of around 30 per cent in urban car traffic in that period, with resulting implications for congestion, the environment and safety. By their nature, these studies encompass a wide range of solutions, in land use policy as well as in transport policy, and within the latter drawing on infrastructure provision, management and pricing measures. In particular, they emphasise the importance of achieving synergy between these policy instruments through integrated solutions to complex problems. This paper reviews the approach being adopted to the development of integrated transport strategies, and the problems which it is envisaged will need to be overcome in urban areas in the next twenty years. It considers the range of policy instruments being proposed, and demonstrates that a greater reduction in car use can be achieved by a combination of measures than by any one policy on its own. It concludes that it is possible as a result to stem the increase in pollution and accidents predicted over the next 20 years, but that it is not feasible, by these means alone, to reduce car use below today's level. Finally it considers alternative approaches which may enable such reductions to be achieved.

Language: en