Home-to-work commuting; Compact city; Potential energy savings; Modifiable areal unit problem
Abstract :
[en] The link between transport energy consumption and land use patterns has been the focus of a considerable amount of academic works over the past decades. While many empirical researches are backed up with solid statistical techniques, most of them do not fully consider the influence of scale underlying empirical quantitative investigations. Using fine-scale home-to-work commuting data for Wallonia (Belgium), this paper re-evaluates Breheny’s (1995) assertion that urban structure should hold the characteristics of major cities if substantial energy savings are to be achieved. A local scale approach highlights efficient settlements in terms of transport energy consumption not only within major towns, butalso within remote rural areas. Furthermore, results suggest that influencing the urban form following local energy efficient examples rather than regional ones could also yield significant gains, without an extreme policy stance of re-urbanisation in major cities.
Research Center/Unit :
Lepur : Centre de Recherche en Sciences de la Ville, du Territoire et du Milieu rural LEMA
Disciplines :
Architecture
Author, co-author :
Dujardin, Sébastien
Pirart, François
Brevers, Florence
Marique, Anne-Françoise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur TLU+C > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire
Teller, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur TLU+C > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire
Language :
English
Title :
Home-to-work commuting, urban form and potential energy savings: A local scale approach to regional statistics
Publication date :
2012
Journal title :
Transportation Research. Part A, Policy and Practice
ISSN :
0965-8564
eISSN :
1879-2375
Publisher :
Pergamon Press
Volume :
46
Pages :
1054–1065
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Impact de la Structuration du territoire sur les émissions de GES
Funders :
CPDT - Conférence Permanente du Développement Territorial
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