Green Transportation and Land Use Planning

Abstract

Since usable land in Taiwan is more and more difficult to get and the problems of air pollution, environmental protection, visual quality, and ecological environment, etc, caused by transportation infrastructure are getting more public concern, the Ministry of Transport adopts building green transportation system as one direction of the energy conservation strategy for the traffic department, of which implementing the green transportation system-oriented land use planning is one of the important action plan. As for the system, there should be an objective to determine whether the program result is in accordance with the green transportation developing goal. The paper hereby probes into the green transportation concept that could be applied into the stages of land use design. Land use planning provide some reference to the government agencies and relevant designers when they are drawing up the land use plan.

Greening the Urban Transport System towards Achieving Sustainability

“…Land pattern is also a non-technical part to measure the green transportation. Even, land use planning is mostly administered by the central government, but the local government agencies may provide proper orientation to the relevant designers and owners of vehicles to develop green transportation infrastructure (Kong et al, 2010;Li & Lo, 2013). The road infrastructure is also a part of innovative land utilization process, where environment friendly route plan is suggested to travelers for changing their travel mood to drive (Bothos et al, 2012).…”