Transportation Planning for a Better Environment

Abstract

Section 1 Regional and Urban Transportation Planning.- Better Towns with Less Traffic.- Recent Changes in Transportation and Urban Planning.- Transportation and Land-Use: Problems in Recent Urban Planning Concepts.- The Quality of Urban Life and of Transportation Systems as Determinants of Regional Development Plans.- Land-Use as an Element of Community Structure and Transport.- Section 2 Transportation Planning in Developing Countries.- Problems of Long-Range Travel Behaviour Forecasts in Developing Countries.- Transportation and Urban Life in Developing Nations.- The Relation between Socio-Economic Development and Transportation in Turkey.- Section 3 Modelling and Quantitative Techniques.- Analysis Tools for Evaluating the Effects of Land-Use and Fiscal Control Policies in Developing Communities.- The Sensitivity of Transport Model Output to Variation in Input Assumptions about Travellers' Behaviour.- Roads for New Communities.- Section 4 The Development and Operation of Public Transport Systems.- Australian Government Involvement in Urban Transport.- Cluster Analysis of West German Towns with Special Reference to Personal Rapid Transit Systems.- Human Factors and Ergonomic Considerations in the Design of Automatic Transit Systems.- Peak Period Underground Rail Travel - The London Experience.- Analytic Reflections on the Planning of Public Transport in Metropolitan Areas.- Section 5 Human and Social Factors in Transportation Planning.- Transportation as a Social Environment: Can We Change a Tradition?.- The Mutual Impacts of Transportation and Human Behaviour.- City Centre and Transport Planning - Human Factors and Systems Science. A Problem of Imbalance.- Environmental Assessments for United Kingdom Urban Transportation Studies.- Section 6 Environmental Assessment.- The Social Severance Effects of Major Urban Roads.- People's Responses to Pedestrianisation Schemes.- Socio-Economic and Situational Factors in Urban Traffic Noise Annoyance Levels.- Motor Traffic Noise and Housing.- The Concept of Spatial Mobility and an Analytical Approach.- Section 7 Traffic Accidents.- The System Concept and the Study of Accidents.- A Quasi-Clinical Strategy for Investigating Attitudes in the Transportation Domain.- The Relationship between Road Accidents and Urban Structure.- A Systems Approach to Urban Bicycle Safety.- Section 8 Citizen Participation and Open Planning.- Popper and Participation. A Solution to Urban Segregation.- The Question of Land-Use in the Participatory Transportation Study.- Citizen Participation in Transportation Planning.- Citizen Participation: an Administrative Strategy for Transportation Improvement.