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Traffic Reduction: The Planner's Role in Limiting Car Use - 1994

The paper explains why traffic reduction is needed, and what planners could be doing to bring it about. It says Margaret Thatcher's "great car economy" is "getting out of hand". But the trend of traffic growth has more or less continued unabated. The need to reduce traffic has not yet been fully recognised, yet the arguments for it have continued to strengthen. 

This paper (which can be downloaded to the right) in retrospect seems to express hope at the time that action would be taken to reverse the trend of traffic growth.

Paper TitleTraffic Reduction: The Planner's Role in Limiting Car Use
Paper AuthorTim Pharoah
Conference Details Town & Country Planning Summer School University of St Andrews, Scotland September 7-14th 1994

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Traffic reduction, sustainable transport, less traffic, car dependence, land use planning