Transport Planning: In the Uk, USA and Europe

Transport and travel in the last thirty years. The era of the car. Current patterns and trends. International comparisons. Conclusions. The evolution of transport planning. Introduction to the transport planning process. Development of the land use transport study: the 1960s. Rejection of the 1960s approach. Reemergence of the land use transport study: the 1970s. Developments in planning analysis and evaluation. Parallels in land use analysis. Evaluation in planning and transport. Evaluation and the environment in the 1980s. Contemporary transport planning. The market alternative to transport provision. Lessons for the 1990s. Overseas experience. Introduction. Transport planning in the USA. Transport planning in Germany. Transport planning in France. Transport planning in the Netherlands. Approaches to evaluation in transport. Conclusion. The limitations of transport planning. The theoretical arguments. The limitations of the transport planning model. The response in the 1970s and early 1980s. The response since 1985. Renaissance in the 1990s. Transport agenda 21: the way forward. Introduction. Demographic change. Technology change. Infrastructure. The role for transport planning. Introduction. The market/state relationship. The question of scale. Promotion of economic development. Cities for people. Meeting social needs. Conclusion. Index.