Reducing the travel requirements of the American City: an investigation of alternative urban spatial structures. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

The potential for gradually restructuring urban areas to reduce the built-in requirements for transportation is investigated. Transportation requirements of some alternative urban spatial structures are analyzed and a computer-directed search procedure is developed. It is indicated that by moving about one-third to one-half of the people and about one-third of the jobs to other locations, substantial reductions in travel requirements could be obtained while overall access levels are improved.