Pianificazione urbana e comportamenti di viaggio

摘要: The relation between transport and land use is a widely debatedissue. As many authors outlined the common sense suggests,land are two sides of same coin.With few exceptions, people travel in order to reach places wherethey can carry out their activities.If one side talking about mobility may seemredundant, this kind feeling redundancy yet greatand growing interest scientific community reveal thecomplexity relation.Does spatial structure cities influence styles?Besides some theoretical assumptions, researches tried toanswer question find evidences for it, especially interms causality.Most literature urbanstructure on be found within debate over compactcity urban sprawl.Two main goals identified these studies (the first beingby means functional second): deep understandingof fields detection a“good” structure.Moreover, analyzed devise supportintegrated strategies meant countersprawl de-territorialization processes get morebalanced modal share.Research efforts, those last decade particular, thenfocused finding causal relations transport,in support - or cases undermine integratedpolicies (e.g. Transit Oriented Development USA theABC policy Netherlands).Despite amount variety devoted topic,this still far from being understood empiricallyproven, turning very complex disputed issue.Considering evolution betweenthe inhabitants’ behaviour,a gradual softening positions identified, so thatunambiguous disappearing.Analyzing andland use, paper will identify emerging problematicissues controversies.Not denying importance styles, that addressed,and underlies analysis, whether evidence thisrelation should considered as staging post devising policiesto counter unsustainable lifestylesor not.