2006 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 002-014
This paper focuses on the PDU (Plans de Déplacements Urbains) in France as precedent experiments of the urban transport planning system, which prioritizes public transports in urban areas with view to reducing car trips. It is often considered in Japan that the challenges to reduce car trips tend to be faced with conundrum in finding viable solutions, as each measure to be implemented is difficult to win consent even if the general idea is agreed upon. In this connection, this paper analyses how PDU has come to elaborate its well-deliberated system, overcoming many complications in the past. Also, the paper clarifies that PDU is an urban transport strategy oriented for the promotion of trips using public transport network, which is applicable for future urban transport planning system in Japan.
