Thesis directors: Henry Bakis & Laurent Chapelon
Host Laboratory: UMR 6012 ESPACE
University: Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III
Date of beginning of the thesis: October 2000
Title of the thesis: Urban transport land use interactions in the London metropolitan region: Which levels of accessibility can lead to a sustainable metropolitan region?
Keywords: transport, cities, density, accessibility, sustainability, modelization, spatial strategy, London.
Abstract:
We postulate that metropolitan space and transport networks have intense relations in the short, medium and long term. The daily interactions which materialize by the human mobility patterns translate into a certain metropolitan spatial organization.
These interactions also seem to have a space range in the longer term, the joint evolution of land use and transport networks inducing the metropolitan system footprint.
Our work is to try to identify the most significant interactions between the transport network and the land use variables in the perspective of defining a sustainable metropolitan system.
In this context, we would like to test, via various accessibility measures, the so-called sustainable effects of high densities, urban compactness, urban functional mixity, urban settlements geometry jointly with Public transport developments, road policies and integrated networks.
This research is more specificaly dedicated to the spatial organization of the London metropolitan area including the Greater London, South East and Eastern regions.
Methods:
Current stage of the thesis: modelling.
Estimated completion of the thesis: 2004