Road traffic growth probed

­ROAD TRAFFIC

06 February 2015
 

The DfT’s new road traffic forecasts may overestimate future growth if London-style traffic trends spread to other cities, according to a transport academic. 

Peter Headicar, a reader in transport planning at Oxford Brookes University, says that, if population growth is concentrated in cities, car ownership and use may be lowered “in the manner already seen in London”. 

Discretionary income available for car ownership could also be squeezed by rising house prices and...

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