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

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.

Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Monash University in Australia Provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of travel plans for new residential developments Represents the first study of its kind to explore 'self-selection' effects in the context of residential travel plans Demonstrates an integrated theory of implementation and enforcement to guide future travel planning practice Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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.