POTENTIAL FOR INCREASING WALKING TRIPS

Abstract

Trends in travel behaviour in the Perth Metropolitan Region have shown that walking trips (from an origin to a destination) as a mode share have been declining. The number of trips people make has remained constant, with the trips previously undertaken by foot being undertaken by car. This paper presents the results of indepth research undertaken for the Western Australian Department of Transport to ascertain the reasons why car trips can not be undertaken by foot (within a defined distance criteria). The traditional response is to identify the barriers to walking and by removing the barriers, the number of walking trips will increase. This approach presupposes that people are internally motivated to walk rather than use the car. The indepth research technique allows the reasons why people didn't walk for a particular trip they made to be classified as objective or subjective. From this understanding it is possible to ascertain the potential for walking trips. The indepth research was undertaken in three different land use settings (inner, middle and outer suburbs) and the effects of these different settings on walking behaviour can be quantified. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E204599.

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