Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment

This volume is the result of an international collaboration, which started with a conference at Smadalaro Gfrrd in Sweden. The workshop was supported by the National Science Foundation of the USA (INT-9215114) and by the Swedish National Road Administration, the Swedish Council for Building Research, the Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board and the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research. This support is gratefully acknow ledged. The collaboration started as a bilateral u.S.-Swedish endeavour but was soon widened to other scholars in Europe, Asia, Australia and South-America. Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment is a policy area of growing importance. Sustainable cities and sustainable transport systems are necessary for attaining a sustainable development. The research and policy field, represented in this volume, comprises a number of challenging contrasts: - the contrast between infrastructure investments, mobility and environmental sustainability; - the contrast between policy contexts, modelling traditions and available decision support systems in various parts of the world; - the contrast between available best practice methods and the majority of models applied in planning; the contrast between static models of cross-sectionary equilibria and dynamic models of disequilibrium adjustments; and the contrast between state-of-the-art operationalland-use/transport models and new demands for land-use/transportlenvironment models due to changing policy contexts. Bridging some of these gaps constitutes important research tasks, that are discussed in the twenty-two chapters of this book. A number of emerging research directions are identified in the introduction and summary chapter.

Advanced theory and practice in land-use/transportation modelling Contains all recent advances in methods and issues New and advanced methods and theory in land-use/transportation modelling including spatial computable general equilibrium models and dynamic transport network modelling

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Transportation and communications networks are tremendously important for location, economic efficiency, mobility and welfare. At the same time there is a growing consensus about the negative environmental impacts of transport. A strategy for sustainable spatial systems is one of the most urgent urban planning issues today. This necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of spatial systems, including how land-use, transport and the environment interact and are influenced by different policies and actions. This book aims at improving this understanding. Leading scholars in social and engineering sciences review facts, trends, issues, policies and models relevant for integrated land-+use/ transport/environment analysis and present recent methodological advances in dynamic network modelling, spatial equilibrium modelling, urban land-use/ transportation modelling and regional development analysis. It also covers results from evaluations of landuse and transport policies.

Inhalt
1 Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment: Introduction and Summary.- I Issues.- 2 Infrastructure and Economic Milieu: Swedish Contributions 19601995.- 3 The Changing Context of Transportation Modeling: Implications of the New Economy, Intermodalism and the Drive for Environmental Quality.- 4 Excess Commuting in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.- 5 Household Commuting: Implications of the Behavior of Two-Worker Households for Land-Use/Transportation Models.- II Dynamics and Equilibria in Network Modelling: New Theoretical and Methodological Developments.- 6 Disequilibrium Network Design: A New Paradigm for Transportation Planning and Control.- 7 Infinite Dimensional Formulations of Some Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models.- 8 Introduction to Projected Dynamical Systems for Traffic Network Equilibrium Problems.- 9 Worker and Workplace Heterogeneity and Residential Location: A Historical Perspective on Stockholm.- 10 Parameter Estimation for Combined Travel Choice Models.- 11 Discrete Spatial Price Equilibrium.- 12 Integration of Freight Network and Computable General Equilibrium Models.- 13 A Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Approach for Measuring Multiregional Impacts of Large Scale Transportation Projects.- III Integrated Analysis of Activity Location and Transportation in Urban and Regional Systems.- 14 Applied Models of Urban Land Use, Transport and Environment: State of the Art and Future Developments.- 15 Results from Implementation of Integrated Transportation and Land Use Models in Metropolitan Regions.- 16 Improved Logit Formulations for Integrated Land Use, Transport and Environmental Models.- 17 Modelling Land-Use and Transport Interaction: Policy Analyses Using the IMREL Model.- 18 A Combined Model for Analysing Network Infrastructure andLand-Use/Transportation Interactions.- 19 Development of a Compact Urban Simulation Model.- 20 An Interactive Computer System for Land-Use Transport Analysis.- 21 A Combined Economic Activity and Transportation Model: A Solution Procedure and Application to Multi-Regional Planning.- 22 Road Infrastructure and Corridor Development.