ManagementEconomicsTransportation PlanningTransportTransport PlanningTransportationEnvironmental Impacts Of TransportationSustainable TransportSustainable TransportationTransport EconomicsTransport PolicyTransportation EconomicsEco-efficient TransportationGreen Transportation PlanningSustainability ObjectivesTechnological AdaptationTransport Infrastructure PlanningTransport SustainabilityTransportation Planning For SustainabilityTransportation Sustainability
Car use improves quality of life but increases travel, resource consumption, and pollution, making it unsustainable and contributing to congestion. The paper argues that planning must play a key role in achieving transport sustainability by encouraging shorter trips, activity linking, and reduced car use. The study reviews how economic pricing and technological measures can contribute to reducing car use. The authors conclude that necessary price hikes to curb car use are politically unacceptable, and technology alone offers only temporary relief.
Most people value and enjoy the benefits that the use of their own car brings to their quality of life. These benefits are reflected in the increases in travel, the use of more resources, and the production of more pollution. However, this situation is not sustainable. In this paper the author argues the case for planning playing an instrumental role in achieving sustainability objectives in transport. It reviews the contributions that economics (pricing) and technological measures might have. The conclusion reached is that the scale of price increases required to achieve a reduction in car use will not be politically acceptable. Similarly, technological improvements may only give us a breathing space before more positive action is necessary. Even if the environmental problems created by the car are solved, there will always be the underlying problem of congestion. The only alternative is to travel shorter distances, to develop the potential for linking activities, and to use the car less—this is where pl...
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