Chapter 14: Integrated Transport Strategies

There has been growing interest in recent years in the development of integrated transport strategies. Their origins can be traced to a growing realization that a “predict and provide” approach was unlikely to provide a solution to growing transport problems (Goodwin et al., 1991), an acceptance that efforts to improve the supply of transport had to be matched by measures to control transport demand (Institution of Highways and Transportation, 1996), and heightened interest in the role of land use planning as a complement to transport policy (Greiving and Wegener, 2003). While several government agencies have recently advocated the use of integrated approaches (UK Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1998; European Commission, 2001), the more visionary local authorities were appreciating the need for such approaches a decade earlier (May and Gardner, 1990; May, 1991; May and Roberts, 1995). However, there is still considerable confusion as to what is meant by integration, and how best it can be achieved.