Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Abstract
A recurring theme in the debate on urban transport policy in the last few years has
been the appropriateness of developing Integrated Transport Strategies as a basis
for identifying solutions to current and future urban transport problems. Their
proponents, including a growing number of local authorities, see them as a means of
ensuring that each element of transport policy complements the others. Those who
argue against them, and particularly the Department of Transport, have likened
them to the gramd and unattainable, blueprints produced by 1960s land use -
transport studies. This paper draws on experience with such studies in London,
Birmingham and Edinburgh to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the approach
now being adopted, to suggest ways in which it might be further developed, and to
identify, in the light of experience to date, those elements of policy which might
most effectively contribute to the solution of transport problems