Год выпуска: 2009 Автор: David Vale Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 264 ISBN: 9783838320199
Описание
Cities around the world are implementing sustainable urban form policies to alter mobility patterns. In this book, we reframe these policies as ‘multimodal accessible city'' policies, emphasising accessibility as an important additional explanatory variable of travel behaviour. We focus our research on polycentric urban development policy, which can be seen as a feasible sustainable urban form policy to large cities and metropolitan areas. We found car commuting and public transport commuting to be phenomena explained by different variables, in which car commuting is mainly a socio-economic driven phenomenon, while public transport commuting is mainly a land-use driven phenomenon. However, the analysis of commuting impacts resulting from the relocation of workers and residents points to a negligible commuting impact on residents, who are mainly car commuters, but a negative impact on the commuting patterns of workers, whose car usage has significantly increased as a...
