UK-IRELAND PLANNING RESEARCH CONFERENCE Oxford Brookes University September 2014 ‘Larger, denser 21 st century cities : Planning for Sustainable Travel in a New Era’ Peter Headicar

‘TRAFFIC IN TOWNS’ : THE VIEW IN 1963

COUNTER-URBANISATION

THE ‘NEW’ ERA [from about 1995!]  Higher rate of increase in national population  End of overall counter-urban shift in spatial distribution  ‘Peak car’ - end of growth in per capita car mileage....which coincided with and are now furthered by....  Widespread adoption of urban transport management packages incl promotion of sustainable modes  Planning policies of urban renaissance: economic regeneration, use of brownfield land, higher dev’t densities

THE CHANGING POPULATION CONTEXT

‘PEAK CAR’

CHANGE IN CAR OWNERSHIP AND COMMUTING BY LOCAL AUTHORITY AREA-TYPE

DRIVING LICENCE-HOLDING AMONGST YOUNGER ADULTS BY AGE & GENDER

REASONS OFFERED BY YOUNGER ADULTS FOR LOWER TAKE-UP OF DRIVING (ITC 2014)

PROJECTED INCREASE IN POPULATION FOR LARGEST CITY AUTHORITIES

DENSER CITIES : MORE SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL?

ALTERNATIVES TO PERSONAL CAR OWNERSHIP

THE PRODUCT OF TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT IN OXFORD