Transport, Land-Use and the Environment, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996 Transportation Research, Economics and Policy Series

Coordination of land use and transport is one of the most important issues in urban planning from the viewpoint of transport infrastructure supply and amenity in urban space. There has been, therefore, much research conducted in the fields of empirical analysis and theoretical and mathematical modelling of the mechanisms of land use-transport interaction. The members of the Transport and Land Use SIG (Special Interest Group) of the WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society) have conducted extensive research in these fields. Leading on from the activities of ISGLUTI (International Study Group on Land Use-Transport Interaction) chaired by Dr. Vernon Webster, its output was published as a book "Land Use-Transport Interaction / Policies and Models". Concurrently with this ongoing research, energy consumption in the transport sector has been increasing rapidly and become a crucial issue from the viewpoint of global environmental conservation. An emerging research need is to examine and structurally identify the mechanisms of the influence of land use-transport interaction on energy consumption and environmental damage, both locally and globally. The SIG held a seminar in December 1993 in Blackheath, Australia which was the first meeting where world class land use-transport experts gathered to discuss the above topic, covering fact finding, scenario analysis and modelling. This book contains selected papers from the seminar. The Australian Government, CSIRO (Australia) and the Asahi Glass Foundation (Japan) supported the seminar. The book was edited with an enormous and patient help by Dr. Omar Osman at Nagoya University.

A. Setting Up the Problems.- 1. Economic Development and its Influence on the Environment: Urbanisation, Infrastructure and Land Use Planning Systems.- 2. Congestion and Pollution in a Rapidly Expanding City of South-East Asia: The Case of Bangkok.- 3. Better Cities — Better for the Environment.- 4. Higher Density Housing and Transport in Australian Cities.- 5. Urban Productivity and Sustainability — Impacts of Technological Change.- B. Policy Implications in Modelling.- 6. Reduction of CO2 Emissions of Transport by Reorganisation of Urban Activities.- 7. SUSTAIN — A Model Investigating Sustainable Urban STructure And Interaction Networks.- 8. Educating Planners in Testing of Alternative Strategies for Cities of Different Sizes.- 9. NOx Reduction Effects of the Policy to Reduce Diesel Automobiles and its Influence on Price Change.- 10. Short-term Impact Analysis of Pricing Strategies on VMT Reduction.- 11. Spatial Impact of Road Improvement in the Suburban Recreational Area.- C. Alternative Modelling Approaches.- 12. Analysis of Urban Environmental Policies Assisted by Behavioural Modelling.- 13. An Analysis System for Integrated Policy Measures Regarding Land-Use, Transport and the Environment in a Metropolis.- 14. Optimising Techniques in Activities-Transport Models.- 15. Modelling the Implications of New Public Transport Technology: An Approach Using Artificial Intelligence.- 16. GIS Integrated System for Urban Transport and Development Planning.- 17. Incorporating Environmental Planning Decisions in Transport Planning: A Modelling Framework.- 18. Using Combined Network Equilibrium Models for Environmental Assessments of Land Use-Transportation Scenarios.- 19. A Sequential Land Use/Transportation Model with Externalities: Linking the Dynamics of RegionalEconomic Growth and Urban Spatial Structure.- D. Summing Up.