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Reducing the Need to Travel: the Principles of Good Practice - 1994
The central message of the paper is that the need to travel, and especially car travel, can be reduced by good land use planning and complementary transport measures.
A number of principles that need consideration are briefly described, including:
- Self-sufficiency and settlement size
- Proximity
- Distance thresholds of different travel modes
- Centrality and hierarchy
- Site planning and design
- Density
- Mixed use development
- Public transport compatibility (corridors and nodes)
- Integrated transport networks (all modes)
- Access to public transport
- Preferential routing (for environmental modes)
- Service structure and quality (of public transport)
The paper includes a diagram in which the principles are brought together.
Download the paper and the diagram to the right.
| Paper Title | Reducing the Need to Travel: the Principles of Good Practice |
|---|---|
| Paper Author | Tim Pharoah |
| Conference Details | 6th Annual TRICS conference Imperial College, London 28-29th September, 1994 |
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Reducing travel, traffic limitation, traffic restraint, behaviour change, planning practice
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- Reducing the Need to Travel: the Principles of Good Practice - TRICS conference paper, September 1994
- Principles for reducing the need to travel - diagram