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The land use-transportation system is just that--a system--but it is seldom planned or managed as such. Instead, roads are viewed in isolation, and system performance is measured by levels of service on individual roadways. Operating speed becomes the essential element in transportation planning. The emphasis on speed encourages excess travel and contributes to urban sprawl, undermining society's environmental, energy, and growth management goals. In Florida and Washington State, the search is on for better ways to measure transportation system performance. Adding impetus is the neotraditional planning movement, which has rejected speed as the ultimate measure of performance but only hinted at what might replace it. A paradigm shift in performance measurement--from speed to personal mobility, accessibility, livability, and sustainability--is argued. Alternative performance measures used around the United States are identified and assessed preliminarily. Growth management systems of the future will almost certainly rely on multiple measures, not discarding speed but giving weight to other considerations as well.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1400, Planning and Programming, Land Use, Public Participation, and Computer Technology in Transportation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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1993

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Accessibility; Energy conservation; Environmental impacts; Level of service; Measurement; Mobility; Network analysis (Planning); Operating speed; Performance; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban growth; Zoning

Growth management

Florida; Washington (State)

Florida; Washington (State)

Energy; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 10 1993 12:00AM

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