Developing a set of decision-support tools for sustainable urban transport in the UK

摘要: There is now an increased understanding of the need to design urban transport and land-use systems be more sustainable, policies which are needed achieve this. However, work by European Conference Ministers Transport has highlighted institutional, acceptability, financial, information, regulatory process barriers implementing them. These evident in UK, even though it a particularly developed approach local planning. As contribution overcoming them, 4-year research programme been conducted develop decision-support tools for government. The paper describes international background this programme, its objectives overall structure interaction with authorities. sustainability identified programme's authority partners presented, development selected products from outlined challenges transferring them into practice discussed.