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Don’t throw time savings out of transport appraisal

Bill Wyley, Great Bookham, Surrey KT23
11 November 2016
 

While I sympathise with Paul Buchanan’s vision of a future when “land use, development and economic growth are key outputs of transport appraisal” (Letters LTT 28 Oct), I’m not sure that user benefits can so easily be dismissed as he suggests; and I am certainly not clear that reducing transport demand is universally desirable.

The concept of, and evidence for, travel time budgets has been around for some 50% of my transport planning career (Marchetti’s seminal...

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