The increasing urban sprawl has highlighted the importance of planning paradigm to promote sustainability of communities through land use-transportation solutions. Two case studies: Adelaide and Tokyo located in the Asia-Pacific area and both from developed countries are selected for the study of interactions between urban structure and transport issues. Tokyo is well known as one of largest and densest cities and one of the best public transit serviced cities in the world. In contrast, Adelaide is known as one of the low density cities and one of the most car dependent cities. This paper specifically examines three main questions. (a) In which ways does urban form differs between Adelaide and Tokyo? (b) What are the influences of urban form on transport issues including travel behaviour and greenhouse gas emissions? (c) What are the policy implications for overcoming car dependency concerns in Adelaide? This paper is organised in three sections: section one introduces the spatial structure of two case areas; section two compares two case areas in terms of transport issues and in the last section the potential implications of snapshot comparisons for metropolitan Adelaide are discussed. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E214666.
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