ABSTRACT
The functional connection between transport and land use leads those who have concerns about the transport system to look to land use planning as a means of aiding the management of transport demand. Recent attempts to do this in the UK are the subject of this chapter. However, public intervention to address some aspect of the two-way link between transport and land use has a much longer history. The effect of motorisation in facilitating low density ‘ sprawl’ in the inter-war period of the twentieth century was itself a contributory factor in establishing the comprehensive system of development planning and control which exists to this day. Any discussion of the potential for using this system now to influence traffic levels cannot properly be divorced from experience in the half century in between.
