Chris De Gruyter

Travel Plans for New Residential Developments: Insights from Theory and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This thesis explores the use of travel plans for new residential developments as a tool for managing car use and encouraging the use of more sustainable forms of transport. It provides coverage of the scale of travel planning practice for new developments, industry perspectives on their development and implementation, and an assessment of their quality and effectiveness. It combines implementation theory and planning enforcement theory to identify opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of travel plans for new residential developments and to guide future travel planning practice. This thesis is useful and will appeal to both researchers and practitioners involved in transport planning for new residential developments.

Produktdetails

• Springer Theses
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-10-2091-9
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9789811020919
• ISBN-10: 9811020914
• Artikelnr.: 45237455

Autorenporträt

Chris is a Research Fellow in the Public Transport Research Group at the Institute of Transport Studies in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University. He is also the Deputy Director of the Sustainable and Effective Public Transport - Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Program (SEPT-GRIP). Prior to joining Monash, Chris worked as a transport planner for 12 years, both with the Victorian government and in consulting.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Travel plans and their application to new developments.- Theoretical foundations.- Research methodology.- The scale of travel planning practice.- Actor perspectives.- Travel plan quality.- Travel plan impacts.- Opportunities to enhance impacts.- Conclusions.