Can Land Use Management Reduce Energy Consumption for Transportation?

Abstract

The author offers a few empirical observations and deductive propositions. In transporting people in cities there are two major ways to save energy: a more efficient use of vehicles is one; restructuring urban patterns in order to reduce the number of miles people need to travel is another. If land use management can be applied to the problem of energy conservation, such as by changes in the relative location of homes, jobs, recreational amenities, etc., so as to minimize the distances people would normally have to travel much should be accomplished. He discusses the feasibility of these methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA032226

Entities

People

  • Guy J. Pauker

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Automobiles
  • California
  • Energy Conservation
  • Energy Consumption
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Internal Combustion Engines
  • Law
  • Local Governments
  • Motor Vehicles
  • New England
  • Recreation
  • Rural Areas
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Organizational Psychology.