Directing the evolution of urban land use to achieve improved transportation system perfomance. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, January 1975.

The potential for directing the growth of an urban region so that the evolving urban form contributes to high levels of access opportunity with minimum travel, requirements is investigated. Measures of total travel, accessibility, and spatial equity are defined for use in the evaluation of alternative urban spatial patterns.