Planning Sustainable Transport

Chapter 6

Location and land use

The quandary of the interactions between transport and land use

Nothing is both produced and consumed in the same place.¹ The inputs to each productive process (no matter how primitive or advanced) have to be gathered together at a single location and the outputs taken to other places to be used: there may be neither production nor consumption without transport. Transport planners have traditionally analysed movements, the traffic flows, the tonne- and person-kilometres, but, more recently, the places at each end of movements (in transport planning jargon, the ‘origins’ and ‘destinations’) have been the focus of a more detailed concern.

The economy and people’s behaviour are ever-changing. New firms, new houses, ...