Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies Final Report
There is widespread agreement that in order to bring about sustainable travel in urban areas, flexible, integrated policy packages are needed that send the right signals to urban land use and transport markets. The project on Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies conducted by the ECMT has s...
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2002.
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| Series: | Implementing sustainable urban travel policies Final report
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705401306719 |
Table of Contents:
- ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Box 1. Urban Travel and Sustainable Development: The 1995 ECMT/OECD Strategy""; ""Chapter 2. Trends in Urban Travel and Land Use and their Impacts""; ""2.1. Urban development""; ""2.1.1. Continuing suburbanisation of the urban population""; ""2.1.2. Urban density: overall decline""; ""2.1.3. Percentage of jobs in the Central Business District (CBD): generally stable""; ""2.2. Car ownership: on the rise in virtually all countries""; ""2.3. Overall mobility (all modes) stable""
- ""2.3.1. Private car and motorised two-wheel""""2.3.2. Public transport""; ""2.3.3. Non-motorised means""; ""2.3.4. Length of trips by car on the rise""; ""2.4. Public transport supply and demand""; ""2.5. Congestion""; ""2.6. Environmental and safety indicators""; ""2.6.1. Air pollution and noise nuisance""; ""2.6.2. Road safety""; ""2.6.3. Perceptions of environmental and traffic problems""; ""Chapter 3. National Policy Responses to Urban Travel Problems""; ""3.1. Implementing the ECMT-OECD strategy""; ""3.2. Sustainable urban travel policies: what countries are doing""
- ""3.2.1. Decentralisation and national-local government relations""""3.2.2. Integration of transport and land use planning""; ""3.2.3. Consultation""; ""3.2.4. Quality public transport""; ""3.2.5. Traffic management""; ""3.2.6. Road and congestion pricing""; ""3.2.7. Climate change policies""; ""3.2.8. Policy targets""; ""Chapter 4. Challenges to Implementing Sustainable Travel Policies in Urban Areas""; ""4.1. General comments""; ""4.2. Implementation challenges frequently encountered""; ""4.2.1. Lack of a national policy framework for sustainable urban travel""
- ""4.2.2. Poor policy integration and co-ordination""""4.2.3. Inefficient or counterproductive institutional roles and procedures""; ""4.2.4. Public, lobby and press resistance to policies""; ""4.2.5. Unsupportive legal or regulatory framework""; ""4.2.6. Weaknesses in the pricing/fiscal framework""; ""4.2.7. Misguided financing and investment flows""; ""4.2.8. Analytical obstacles""; ""4.2.9. Poor data quality and quantity""; ""4.2.10. Wavering political commitment""; ""Chapter 5. Recommendations for National Governments on Improving Implementation of Sustainable Urban Travel...""
- ""Chapter 6. Conclusions""""Notes""; ""List of References""; ""Annex I. Methodology of the ECMT-OECD Project “Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies� (1998-2001)""; ""Table. Workshops held during the project""; ""Annex II. Steering Group Members""; ""Recent and Forthcoming Documents and Publications""
