Policy making in London's transport planning

Land Use Policy - Tập 2 - Trang 299-308 - 1985
Gavin Smith1
1Gavin Smith can be contacted at the Research and Resource Unit of the Campaign to Improve London's Transport, Tress House, 3 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NT, UK (Tel: 01 928-9179)

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Oldfield, 1977, A Theoretical Model for Estimating the Effects of Fares, Traffic Restraint and Bus Priority in Central London 1984 1984 For up-to-date statistics, contact the Greater London Council, County Hall, London SE1, UK. 1984, London: The Most Civilised City?, Transport and Environment Studies Smith, 1983, How to get London moving, Town and Country Planning 1983, An FTA survey of town centre restrictions 1984, The Company Car Factor, Transport and Environment Studies Hamer, 1972 Smith, 1984 Roth, 1984 A ‘woonerf’ is a residential street redesigned so as to create the conditions of pedestrian priority. The street surface is paved, a 6 km/hour speed limit imposed, and vehicular movement restrained by the use of bollards, tree planting and cycle racks. See the free booklet produced, in English, on woonerven by the Royal Dutch Touring Club, ANWB, Wassenaarseweg 220, Postbus 2200, s'Gravenhage, Netherlands. Wardrop, 1976 1981, London's secret blight, New Statesman 1983, Women and transport On the question of ‘modal split’ amongst commuters (ie how many will use cars as opposed to public transport), interesting behavioural evidence is being analysed by M. Mogridge of the Transport Studies Group at University College London. It appears that minor mode (ie car) journey speeds rise or fall in response to the majority mode (ie public transport) journey speeds, and that by inference, the way to improve road journey times is to improve public transport journey times. Such analysis offers crucial support for the proposals of Oldfield and Figure 1. 1985 1984 Oldfield, 1977, A Theoretical Model for Estimating the Effects of Fares, Traffic Restraint and Bus Priority in Central London