Quantifying community severance - A literature review

摘要: Comparing with other local effects of transport planning, the issue community severance (or "barrier effect") has been neglected by both policy-makers and researchers. Severance is usually defined as separation communities infrastructure or road traffic. In most countries, either not included in project appraisal using general qualitative scales. A diversity methods for quantifying proposed over years, but these proposals have very rarely implemented. This paper reviews existing research on this topic, including government guidance documents several reports to public authorities academic technical papers. The focus identify measure traffic mobility accessibility, especially case pedestrians. challenges integration actual planning are also identified.