Metz, David;
(2024)
Travel Behaviour Reconsidered in an Era of Decarbonisation.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The transport system is central to our lives as our means to travel, but also has major impact on our environment. This has become most salient in recent years through its contribution to climate change. However, this perspective has only had a minor impact on the conventional economic analysis and modelling of transport investments, creating a dissonance between the traditional objectives of investment and the strategic need to reduce carbon emissions to Net Zero by 2050. Travel Behaviour Reconsidered in an Era of Decarbonisation argues that our transport networks are mature, and the objective should be to improve operational efficiency. Over the past half century, large public expenditures in roads and railways were justified by an analytic approach to the benefits of investment, primarily the value of the time saved through faster travel, to both business and non-business users of the networks. However, average travel time has not changed over this period. People have taken the benefit of faster travel as better access to people, places, activities and services, with the ensuing enhanced opportunities and choices. This book argues that the basis of orthodox transport economic analysis has been misconceived and a fresh perspective on economic analysis is now needed.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Travel Behaviour Reconsidered in an Era of Decarbonisation |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087163 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2024 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Metz, D. 2024. Travel Behaviour Reconsidered in an Era of Decarbonisation. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087163 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Travel behaviour, Transport economics, Transport modelling, Transport decarbonisation, Covid pandemic |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194839 |
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