transport planning policies

Transport expert Todd Litman questions wisdom of roads to nowhere

By Amanda Witherell

The Government's plan to construct Roads of National Significance is a decade too late, according to a talk given by Todd Litman, a transport policy expert visiting Wellington from Victoria, Canada.

As part of the Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Centre's seminar series in May, Litman said car use has peaked.

Kicking the habit (part 1): some musings on the meaning of 'car dependence'.

The first part of a two-part paper attempts to define 'car dependence', indeed increase our understanding of this concept in relation to what cars provide. Transport choice is seen as part of consumption and activity; and urban form needs to be devised to reduce car dependence.