Mapping the relationship between transport energy consumption and urban form characteristics for the Greater Dublin Area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16840487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Carty (0000-0002-5185-6453, University College Dublin), Aoife Ahern (0000-0002-4065-3909, University College Dublin) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 160-168 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Maps (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-5647 • E-ISSN: 1744-5647 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4113/jom.2010.1074 |
| OpenAlex | W2050036847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. Energy consumption and emissions from the transport sector continue to rise, adding to growing concerns about the environmental impacts caused by transport systems and related land-use patterns. Transportation and land-use are a function of one another, therefore it is often hypothesized that changing urban form will result in changes in transport energy consumption. This paper intends to explore further the relationship between urban form and transport energy consumption. It is hypothesised in this research that more compact neighbourhoods result in more sustainable communities, with lower transport energy consumption. The theory is to an extent premised on urban containment, to provide a concentration of socially sustainable mixed uses, that will concentrate development and reduce the need to travel, thus reducing transport energy consumption. Using the Census of Population of Ireland 2006 Place of Work—Census of Anonymised Records (POWCAR) Dataset it is intended to examine urban form factors in terms of their influence on journey to work energy consumption. To examine the hypothesis, the transport energy consumption of different urban forms will be found, thus allowing the most sustainable urban forms in the Greater Dublin Area to be identified. The results of this research can then be used to assess the transport energy consumption of future development plans and therefore allow greater transport sustainability to be achieved through improved design of the location and form of major new development
Business · Census · Civil engineering · Compact city · Economics · Energy consumption · Environmental economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Land use · Political science · Population · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Transport engineering · Urban planning · Engineering · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics · Urban Transport and Accessibility
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |