Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?

Travel Demand Management (TDM) Plans have been employed internationally as tools for large trip generators to encourage sustainable commuter travel. In Australia, there is an absence of legislation or regulation addressing travel demand management and little action is undertaken in this field. Recen...

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Main Authors: Curtis, Carey, Holling, Carlindi
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://www.atrf.info/papers/2004/2004_Curtis_Hollinh.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34595
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description Travel Demand Management (TDM) Plans have been employed internationally as tools for large trip generators to encourage sustainable commuter travel. In Australia, there is an absence of legislation or regulation addressing travel demand management and little action is undertaken in this field. Recent development of a TDM good practice kit for universities promoted research to ascertain how Australian universities are managing the transport demands of staff and students. This paper reports on a survey of Australian universities which found that few universities are proactively managing travel demand of staff and students and many cater to high levels of car use.The paper describes some of the actions that universities can employ to reduce car trips and increase the proportion of travel on more sustainable modes. It concludes that the likely competitive advantage for universities is high with capital savings and a more amenable environment amongst the range of benefits.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-345952017-01-30T13:44:28Z Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action? Curtis, Carey Holling, Carlindi Travel behaviour sustainable transport travel demand management urban form land use transport integration Travel Demand Management (TDM) Plans have been employed internationally as tools for large trip generators to encourage sustainable commuter travel. In Australia, there is an absence of legislation or regulation addressing travel demand management and little action is undertaken in this field. Recent development of a TDM good practice kit for universities promoted research to ascertain how Australian universities are managing the transport demands of staff and students. This paper reports on a survey of Australian universities which found that few universities are proactively managing travel demand of staff and students and many cater to high levels of car use.The paper describes some of the actions that universities can employ to reduce car trips and increase the proportion of travel on more sustainable modes. It concludes that the likely competitive advantage for universities is high with capital savings and a more amenable environment amongst the range of benefits. 2004 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34595 http://www.atrf.info/papers/2004/2004_Curtis_Hollinh.pdf fulltext
spellingShingle Travel behaviour
sustainable transport
travel demand management
urban form
land use transport integration
Curtis, Carey
Holling, Carlindi
Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?
title Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?
title_full Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?
title_fullStr Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?
title_full_unstemmed Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?
title_short Travel Demand Management at Australian Universities: Recognition, Contemplation or Action?
title_sort travel demand management at australian universities: recognition, contemplation or action?
topic Travel behaviour
sustainable transport
travel demand management
urban form
land use transport integration
url http://www.atrf.info/papers/2004/2004_Curtis_Hollinh.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34595