Title: Pedestrian access ways in Western Australia
Abstract: Pedestrian access ways (PAWs) continue to present a significant and unresolved challenge to transport planners in local and State government. The responses by local and State government have often been piecemeal and have frequently resulted in tensions between civic constituencies, high levels of administrative cost, adverse publicity, reduced transport functionality and compromises to the policy intentions of a range of government agencies. In part, this has been due to a gap between the intrinsic complexity of PAW eco-systems and the oversimplification of this complexity in ways that ignores issues of multiple uses, purposes, user interests, user groups, functionality, ownership, control and agency and the ways these vary across the day, week, seasons, years and planning fashions. In short, local interests and incomplete understanding the situation have limited the development of best practice in management of PAWs, have generated unnecessary problems, and in particular have prevented an integrated government approach. This paper presents findings of recent research on the management of PAWs to reduce crime. This required identifying and addressing unresolved and overlooked issues. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E217264.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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