%T Comprehensive and multi-modal urban transport planning
%A Todd Litman



%I Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
%D 2013

%K Urbanisation



%U https://apo.org.au/node/34565

%X Transport planning is experiencing a paradigm shift; that is, a change in the way that problems are defined and solutions evaluated. The old paradigm is mobility-based. It assumes that the planning objective is to maximise travel speed, and evaluates transport system performance based primarily on automobile travel conditions. A new paradigm recognises that the ultimate goal of most transport activity is accessibility, which refers to people’s overall ability to reach desired services and activities.
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