ABSTRACT
Transport planning within the city aims to ensure maximum efficiency in terms
of the movement of people and goods, and it has long been recognised that an
efficient transport network is vital to the city’s economic success. Increased
awareness of the negative consequences of transport developments has
brought into much sharper focus the tensions that exist between promoting
physical development and enhancing environmental quality, with such issues as
traffic congestion lying at the heart of the urban management challenge. Indeed,
there is no simple solution to the problem of how to ensure access to and circu-
lation within the urban core whilst creating and maintaining an attractive envi-
ronment. Whilst over the last few decades government transport policy has
served to reinforce a preference for private travel and movement of goods by
road, there is now a growing awareness of the social, economic and environ-
mental costs of such a focus.
