
REGULATING CARS AND BUSES IN CITIES: THE CASE OF PEDESTRIANISATION IN OXFORD
Debates about whether traffic regulations that limit car use will enhance or hinder a particular urban economy are complex and often emotive. The present article considers evidence from the implementation of a radical traffic restraint and pedestrianisation scheme in Oxford in 1999. The most important achievement was a 17% reduction in car trips to the centre, which did not affect overall visitor numbers. The local economy did though experience a period of difficult trading around the time of implementation.
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Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Graham Parkhurst is Senior Lecturer in Transport Planning at the Unit for Transport and Society, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Publication date: June 1, 2003