Potential for mode transfer of short trips : review of existing data and literature sources. A contract carried out for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR).

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Mackett, R.L. & Robertson, S.A.
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Abstract

This report has been written as part of a project entitled `Potential for mode transfer of short trips', being carried out in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The overall objective of the work is to contribute to Government policy to encourage the use of the environmentally friendly travel modes in order to reduce the amount of travel by private car. The focus is on the encouragement of the use of walking, cycling and public transport (buses in particular) rather than ways of making car users give up their vehicles. The objective of this document is to report on the information gleaned by examination of existing data sources. It complements the survey work and analysis which forms the core of the project. The focus of this work is `short trips'. In this report these are usually taken to be those of less than 8 km (5 miles). It should be noted that while many sources of information contain data on related elements such as mean trip lengths and modal split, very few focus on `short trips' as a phenomenon in their own right. (Author/publisher)

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C 26225 [electronic version only] /72 /10 /
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London, University College London, Centre for Transport Studies, 2000, VIII + 70 p., 85 ref.

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