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Title: Optimal Land Use--Transport Strategies: Methodology and Application to European Cities
Accession Number: 01018975
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: There has been growing interest in Europe in the development of integrated transport strategies, in which individual policy instruments are combined to complement one another and to achieve improved performance against a given set of policy objectives. This paper applies an optimization procedure to identify optimal strategies for packages of transport policy instruments without, and then with, constraints on finance and targets for global warming and safety. Some exploratory tests have also been carried out on land use strategies, and they are reported here in brief. Results demonstrate that the methodology is robust and can be applied with different transport models and with constraints applied both to policy instruments and to objectives. All optimal strategies found involved substantial reductions in fare levels throughout the study area. Where it was not possible to change fares, the strategies were substantially less effective when measured against the objectives. Most optimal strategies involved increases in public transport frequencies, although their scale varied between cities. All optimal strategies included peak-period cordon charges to enter the city center, though the optimal level varied between cities. Financially constrained strategies were found to involve smaller fare reductions and higher cordon charges; in some cases frequency increases were smaller. These constrained optima still performed well; the greatest reduction in benefit was only 15%. The net present value of the benefit generated was about 2,000M Euros (1 Euro = $1.20 US, 2005) in Edinburgh and more than 4,000M Euros in Leeds, United Kingdom. The impact of transport strategies on land use was small, and development constraints had to be used to reverse urban sprawl.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01018954
Language: English
Authors: May, Anthony DShepherd, Simon PEmberger, GuenterAsh, AndrewZhang, XiaoyanPaulley, NeilPagination: pp 129-138
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0309093988
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Feb 19 2006 8:41PM
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