Traffic avoidance
Traffic avoidance is an instrument of traffic planning . In terms of a transport policy and planning geared towards sustainability , it is one of the basic approaches of transport science , alongside the modal shift and the environmentally friendly handling of existing mobility needs .
concept
The concept of traffic avoidance is based on the assumption that traffic needs arise from the spatially separated arrangement of existential functions of human life: Due to the functional differentiation of cities into more or less homogeneous sub-areas for living, working, consumption and leisure, residents are forced to move to get to work or supply center. To a large extent, these movements are unavoidable as most people e.g. B. do not live in the immediate vicinity of their work or training place. However, traffic and urban planning assumes that a sensible allocation of urban functions can shorten distances and thus reduce the volume of traffic. If, for example, there are other sub-centers with facilities for supply or leisure in a city in addition to a main business center, the traffic flows directed towards the center decrease.
The connection between urban development and traffic development becomes clear . The principle of traffic avoidance in urban planning has become known under the keyword “ city of short distances ”.
See also
Web links
- Avoidance of traffic - report of the German Institute for Urbanism , Berlin 1998
- Avoidance of traffic - topic page at the future mobility specialist portal
- Avoidance of traffic - topic page at the Federal Environment Agency