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Content. One-Planet-Living One-Planet-Mobility strategies Issue with car Why use car Time budget Habitual decisions making Moral decision making The role of the road. One-Planet-Living. Per capita ecological footprint of nations. NZ >> 5.8 gha pc Available >> 1.9 gha pc. WWF, 2004
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Content • One-Planet-Living • One-Planet-Mobility strategies • Issue with car • Why use car • Time budget • Habitual decisions making • Moral decision making • The role of the road Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 2
Per capita ecological footprint of nations NZ >> 5.8 gha pc Available >> 1.9 gha pc WWF, 2004 Living Planet Report Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 4
Food Hols Waste Travel Energy One-Planet-Living If everybody led the lifestyle of OECD countries, within current technological systems, we would need three to five planets to sustain us. BioRegional, 2003 Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 5
One-planet-living in London Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 7
One-planet-mobility • 1gha per capita of land to sustain travel habits • 15% of total footprint • But 37% of households don’t have a car, and only 18% have more than one Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 8
One-planet-mobility at BedZED Hackbridge, LB Sutton 82 homes and work space Private and social housing Travel BioRegional Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 9
One-planet-mobility at BedZED • Homes & office alternative to commuting • HomeZone • ZEDcars alternative to private car • Monitored 65% reduction in car use at BedZED BioRegional Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 10
Issue with car - traffic Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 12
Issue with car – land use Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 13
Issue with car - suburbia Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 14
Issue with car • Use of non-renewables, • Greenhouse gases and other emissions, • Land use, • Eutrofication and acidification of ecosystems, • Noise, • Traffic jams, • Alienation of other forms of transport leading to restricted access to markets, employment and social facilities for disadvantaged groups, • Increasing obesity, • Road accidents • Changes to urban form (suburbanisation) that lead to social exclusion and criminality, • Impact of poor air quality on health Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 15
Why car - convenience Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 17
Why car – social facilitator Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 18
Why car – I am what I drive Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 19
Time budget Average travel times for the journey-to-work in 23 industrialised cities (1990) (Zeibots M.E. 2003) Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 21
Time budget Typical daily tasks that make-up a daily routine (Zeibots M.E. 2003) Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 22
Perception Prediction Habitual behaviour Evaluation Impulsive behaviour Decision Acting Action Habitual decision making • Intuitive or habitual behaviour follows a perception of need straight into a pre-decided action – there is no evaluation involved and no decision has to be taken. • Most travel decisions (commute, shopping trips) are habitual Types of decisions making (Weggemans, 2004) Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 24
Role of the road • Roads – spaces for movements of cars • Car-orientated design can often encourage further car use and create ugly, anti-social spaces, which create barriers to pedestrians and cyclists Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 26
Role of the road • Roads – public community spaces • Movement corridors (people, cycles, cars) • Meeting places, • Children's playgrounds • Green spaces • Key contextual factor in changing travel habits Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 27
Home Zone • Design for multiple road uses – driving, walking, play • Aim – reduce car dependency, encourage community interaction, improve safety • Location - areas of social housing with high crime rates and antisocial behaviour Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 28
Home Zone http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/environment/planning/urban_design/homezone.htm Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 29
Embarcadero Expressway, San Francisco Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 30
Embarcadera - a new urban setting Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 31