In 1995 the New South Wales Government introduced the joint metropolitan strategies "Cities for the 21st Century" and the "Integrated Transport Strategy" (ITS). Together these strategies sought to integrate economic Development, environmental management, and transport and land use planning in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region. One of the main aims of these strategies was to improve the balance between the use of private vehicles and public transport by encouraging the containment of economic activity and new employment development in fifteen key commercial centres throughout the region. The centres were selected because of their size, potential for growth, and accessibility to public transport. Using the Transport Data Centre's 1996 Employment and Journey to Work data set, derived from the 1996 Census of Population and Housing, this paper examines the employment characteristics of fifteen commercial centres. It discusses the relationship between the characteristics of workers, where they lived and the modes of transport they used to travel to work. (A)
Samenvatting