Publisher's Synopsis
This report questioned, on the basis of a comprehensive review of the existing literature, the extent to which urban transport investment projects could be viewed as either generating economic development or resolving the problem of congestion. The report has been designed to assist planners and those interested in planning issues to assess the key arguments in this debate without making major time investments in undertaking individual literature searches. Although the report was produced in 1987, as recently as April 1993, the report received parliamentary mention as the key document in this field. The issues raised in 1987, the relationship of transport investment to economic development and congestion, remain the key issues in 1994, although whereas economic development was the most dominant issue in 1987, congestion is the key issue in 1994.
