ABSTRACT
Few people travel simply to enjoy the journey. However, the dynamics of land use and transport interaction is very complex and it is not always possible to establish cause-and-effect relationships. The medium of interaction between land-use activities and transport facilities is traffic and the objective of a transport study is, quite simply, to predict future traffic levels and to plan facilities to accommodate this traffic. The fragility of many of the assumptions underlying the techniques for forecasting and evaluation in transport planning is largely self-evident. The public transport network is very different from the road network, scheduled stopping points and route interchanges being more important than road junctions and links. Much of the information required for the public transport inventory can be obtained from published route maps and timetables. The public transport network is very different from the road network, scheduled stopping points and route interchanges being more important than road junctions and links.
