Abstract
This paper revisits the rationale for seeking to achieve sustainable land use and transport plans. It reviews the plethora of well-intentioned, but frequently optimistic activity which this has spawned throughout Europe and the UK. The paper concludes that we now know enough about reducing car use to city centres and other major trip attractors to successfully implement such policies on a much wider scale. In large conurbations, however, this will leave most of the traffic untouched. For this dispersed demand we face a choice between improving road networks and developing new modes of transport capable of outperforming the car and the goods vehicle. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E213376.