A road too far

by Anne Batchelor

Reproduces in full evidence given by Mrs Anne Batchelor, a member of the public, to the public inquiry into the Birmingham Northern Relief Road in the UK in September 1995. Demonstrates the extent to which basic freedoms and human rights are extinguished by the pursuit of mobility and further additions to an already overcrowded morass of infrastructure.

Land use impact costs of transportation

by Todd Litman

Suggests that land use impact costs should be used for evaluating transportation decisions. Examines how these decisions affect land use. Proposes how land use costs can be evaluated. Describes a framework for incorporating land use impacts into transportation planning and policy decisions.

Transport policy: a critical role for strategic environmental assessment

by William R. Sheate

Takes some key examples of transport policy - the Trans-European Network for transport, motorway charging, airports and new road building - and examines the need for a fundamental shift in the way in which transport policy is formulated and implemented on the ground. Illustrates the need for a shift in the focus of environmental impact assessment (EIA) to higher decision levels by the limitations of project EIA, especially in the transport field, in its ability to address real alternative options. If transport is to be sustainable, impacts must be avoided, not merely mitigated.

Transport for Visually Impaired: A look at Urban Britain.

by Tamsyn Parry

Blind and visually impaired people in urban Britain face many difficulties with transport. These difficulties are directly related to the relative neglect of public and rail transport, in terms of provision, when compared with the private motor car. Visually impaired people, unlikely to have access to a car, have to use a de-regulated bus industry surrounded by confusion and desertion of customers, a rail industry that is on the brink of being privatised, and town and city centres that for too long have been over-run by the motor car. Improvements have been made and change may well be positive. Highlights the problems, through personal experience, that partially sighted people encounter. Also examines some improvements that have been made in Birmingham and Shrewsbury.

Parental attitudes to children's journeys to school

by Mary Sissons Joshi & Morag MacLean

Previous research has established that the percentage of 7 - 8 year old children who travel independently to school in England has declined from 80 per cent in 1971 to 9 per cent in 1990. Surveys 378 parents of 7 - 11 year old children. Questions focus on current mode of transport, pattern of accompaniment and reasons for accompanying a child to school. Results indicate that 68.2 per cent of the children are accompanied to and from school by an adult. Finds that there are no general effects on pattern of accompaniment, but there are age effects with 7 -9 year olds being more likely to be accompanied than numbers 10 - 11 year olds. The questionnaire design allows parents to endorse multiple reasons for accompanying a child to/from school, the most frequently cited reason being "stranger danger".

Rejoinder to parental attitudes to children's journeys to school by Mary Sissons Joshi and Morag MacLean.

by Mayer Hillman

Gives a reply to the article by Mary Sissons Joshi and Morag MacLean which criticised the design of the questionnaire used in earlier research and postulated that this had produced misleading findings which had serious consequences in terms of interpreting the reasons given by parents for restricting their children's independence. Describes factors which may account for the differences in findings in the research studies.

Urban space and logistics: On the road to sustainability?

by Markus Hesse

Deals with the interrelation of urban development, urban construction and commercial transport (goods movement, service industry) in towns, based on the research project "Sustainable Commercial Traffic" in the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen, Remscheid (Germany) and other current German and Swiss activities. The project focussed not only on steps for an integration of freight transport into urban transport planning but investigated also the different interests of urban planning and construction on the one hand and the companies on the other. To discuss problems and to moderate diverse interests between the operatives, a "Regional Freight Traffic Round Table" has been established. Concludes better communication is an important prerequisite for a sustainable transport development.

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