Improvements in accessibility are increasingly suggested asstrategies leading to a reduction in vehicular travel, congestion,pollution and their related impacts. This approach assumes thatindividuals, if offered an opportunity, are likely to reduce theirtravel. It also assumes that accessibility-enhancing land-use changeswill increase transit and non-motorized trips in lieu of automobileusage. However, there are numerous indications that people engage inexcess travel and are not necessarily inclined to reduce it. Thispaper presents a number of hypotheses on the reasons for excesstravel and the relationships among attitudes toward travel andresponses to accessibility-enhancing strategies.
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