Much of land use and transportation planning today aims to reduce traffic congestion. However, the barometers typically used to measure congestion provide only a snapshot of a select dimension of a city's transportation system and fail to accurately reflect how easy it is to reach destinations. Comprehensive and policy relevant measures useful to land-use and transportation planning need to capture both land use and travel dimensions. This book focuses on the science and policy around the multi-modal concept of accessibility. If the goal is to create physical environments that are accessible,...

Metropolitan Transport and Land Use　provides a fresh and unique perspective on metropolitan land use and transport networks, combining the disciplines of urban planning and civil engineering to challenge current planning strategies and offer frameworks to understand and evaluate policy. The book helps readers understand larger transportation-land use systems and their components, the need for change and workable solutions to urban problems.

This fully revised and updated edition includes coverage of new theories and perspectives on ICT and e-commerce, wider...

Metropolitan Transport and Land Use　provides a fresh and unique perspective on metropolitan land use and transport networks, combining the disciplines of urban planning and civil engineering to challenge current planning strategies and offer frameworks to understand and evaluate policy. The book helps readers understand larger transportation-land use systems and their components, the need for change and workable solutions to urban problems.

This fully revised and updated edition includes coverage of new theories and perspectives on ICT and e-commerce, wider...