Transport impacts on land use: Potential methods and their relevance to strategic planning

This paper examines the relevance to UK strategic planning of methods to estimate the impacts of transport policy on land use processes. Three differing techniques for forecasting these impacts were applied to a common study area. These were a Delphi survey, a simple static land use model, and a linked land-use/transport model. An assessment was made of the methods, using a sample of practising UK planners, against the criteria of relevance and plausibility of the approaches, and validity of the forecasts.