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Component

National Parks in the United Kingdom (UK) are increasingly facing issues of traffic congestion, environmental degradation and pressures from competing stakeholders. These pressures are exacerbated by the fact that the National Parks Authority does not have overall control for policy within the national parks. This paper draws on an extensive literature review to provide a brief overview of National Parks in the UK, the transport issues encountered by these National Parks and the planning and policy responses to them. Within this, the paper covers three specific aspects namely: opposition to traffic restraint where schemes proposing any form of vehicle restriction can be opposed at the local level, making their introduction publicly and politically unacceptable; initiatives can fail to meet conventional measures of success and as such schemes can be abandoned due to poor patronage or failure to meet pre-determined economic or social criteria; and finally in terms of planning and management practicalities: initiatives can be difficult to enforce across dispersed areas (for example parking strategies); funding for initiatives can be limited and short-term in nature; and activities can be difficult to co-ordinate and rely on the participation on a wide range of stakeholders.

01329018

11-1400

English

16p

2011

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

DVD

Maps (1) ; References (32) ; Tables (2)

Coordination; Literature reviews; National parks; Parking; Planning; Policy making; Stakeholders; Traffic congestion

Environmental degradation

United Kingdom

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-1400

TRIS, TRB

Feb 17 2011 5:47PM