IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envira/v12y1980i2p203-216.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Improving Energy Efficiency in Community Land-Use—Transportation Systems

Author

Listed:
  • R Sharpe

    (Division of Building Research CSIRO, PO Box 56, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia)

Abstract

The form of our cities is a major determinant of energy consumption, especially that related to the oil-consuming transport sector. This is particularly so in Australia, which is one of the most highly urbanized nations in the world with a high degree of dependence on automotive transport. The paper discusses planning changes to cope with future oil shortages in terms of modifying urban form, community hardware (buildings, infrastructure, and rolling stock), and community software (life-styles, rules and regulations, fuel economics, etc). Energy savings of at least 40% are possible in the larger cities through changes such as increasing vehicle operating costs, increasing vehicle occupancy, higher-density development, and shorter-trip behaviour. Subcentre development within the urban area is found to be less energy expensive than fringe or satellite development.

Suggested Citation

  • R Sharpe, 1980. "Improving Energy Efficiency in Community Land-Use—Transportation Systems," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 12(2), pages 203-216, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:12:y:1980:i:2:p:203-216
    DOI: 10.1068/a120203
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a120203
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1068/a120203?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:12:y:1980:i:2:p:203-216. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.