ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the process of urban planning should be integrated with transportation planning for the urban area. It examines the layouts of urban localities, and how these affect densities and, therefore, ultimately travel demand. The point is to treat the right to build as a tradeable commodity in urban areas, subject to such constraints on its use as may be important in particular localities. The exact spots for Tokyo’s, Hong Kong’s and Shanghai’s worst localities will fall somewhere on the corresponding horizontal line, depending on more precise information regarding buildable ratios. Different societies enjoy different amounts of built-up floor space per capita. Transport modeling is now an enormously complex and sophisticated exercise. A metropolitan area is divided into hundreds, if not thousands, of individual pockets, each with its particular share of trip generation and trip attraction.
