A Call for the Integration of Transportation and Land Use Planning

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  • Bonk, David
    • Other Affiliation: Senior Transportation Planner, Town of Chapel Hill, NC
Abstract
  • The coordination of land use and transportation is an issue that has received increased attention as concerns about the impacts of suburban sprawl, the cost and supply of energy, air pollution and traffic congestion continue to be debated. Transportation planners are now beginning to recognize the depth of the relationship between how land is developed and how people travel. Similarly, increased attention to public transit services has just begun to focus on the relationship between land use decisions and transit ridership. While the relationship between land use patterns and transportation would seem apparent enough, it has been only recently that land use/transportation linkage has been given more attention. The rigid separation of land use planning within planning departments, transit planning within transit agencies and roadway planning within traffic engineering departments has tended to result in little coordination. During the energy crisis of the early 1970s there had been some analysis of the transportation impacts of alternative land use patterns, concentrating primarily on transportation use and energy consumption. Various studies concluded that more compact development patterns would result in reduced auto mileage and energy consumption. More recently, Robert Cervero's detailed study of suburban transportation problems in Suburban Gridlock and his later America 's Suburban Centers, re-emphasized the transportation/land use linkage and illustrated the degree to which transportation problems have resulted from a lack of coordination with land use planning.
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  • Carolina Planning Journal
Journal volume
  • 17
Journal issue
  • 1
Page start
  • 23
Page end
  • 26
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  • English
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  • Carolina Planning Journal

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