{"id":2960,"date":"2025-02-05T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/principaleconomics.com\/en-ca\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:08:45","slug":"alternative-transport-appraisal-with-a-focus-on-land-use-and-transport-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/principaleconomics.com\/en-ca\/alternative-transport-appraisal-with-a-focus-on-land-use-and-transport-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Transport Appraisal with a Focus on Land-use and Transport Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Principal Economics team collaborated with a large team of frontier researchers and practitioners and developed a transport appraisal methodology that is grounded in an accessibility framework and integrates travel behaviour, environmental impacts and economic principles.<\/h4>\n

The project sought to address limitations in the current appraisal methodology, which although well-established, has notable limitations. To address these, the research considered the pros and cons of six potential appraisal methodologies, drawing on the identified advantages of each to establish an access-based synthesised accessibility appraisal methodology as an alternative.<\/h4>\n

The synthesised methodology will improve land-use and transport policy integration. It: <\/h4>\n
  • separates analysis of expected travel behaviour change (which can be the complex and uncertain) from analysis in the change in ‘potential’<\/li>\n
  • adopts access values based on travel purpose for each income quintile<\/li>\n
  • highlights the low-hanging fruits for environmental improvement<\/li>\n
  • recommends filtering outcomes that do not meet emission targets.<\/li>\n

    Our team has applied the synthesised accessibility appraisal methodology to three case studies. A comparison of the outcomes produced by the synthesised accessibility appraisal methodology with those generated from a status quo appraisal highlighted the importance and usefulness of the new approach. The new methodology was shown to cohesively combine various components of land-use and transport policy, and provide transparent information for decision-makers, and demonstrated it could lead to significantly higher benefit\u2013cost ratios if the potential benefits of transport projects and programmes are accommodated by permissive land-use policies.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Our peer-reviewed alternative transport appraisal methodology provides a frontier solution for integrating land-use and transport system, improve allocative efficiency and achieve climate targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"content_type":[21],"industry":[23,25,28],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","content_type-publications","industry-enviroment","industry-infrastructure","industry-transport"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t