The quandary of the interactions between transport and land use
Nothing is both produced and consumed in the same place.1 The inputs to each productive process (no matter how primitive or advanced) have to be gathered together at a single location and the outputs taken to other places to be used: there may be neither production nor consumption without transport. Transport planners have traditionally analysed movements, the traffic flows, the tonne- and person-kilometres, but, more recently, the places at each end of movements (in transport planning jargon, the ‘origins’ and ‘destinations’) have been the focus of a more detailed concern.
The economy and people’s behaviour are ever-changing. New firms, new houses, ...
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