Can mixed-methods help us better understand congestion on Low Traffic Neighbourhood boundary roads?

Ersilia Verlinghieri, Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Jamie Furlong, Rachel Aldred and Anna Goodman

Journal of Transport Geography, 2025, vol. 128, issue C

Abstract: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) aim to improve conditions for walking, wheeling and cycling by restricting motor vehicle movements on residential streets while maintaining access to all addresses. Despite generally positive evidence, LTNs faced backlash, often linked to concerns that motor traffic from inside LTNs is displaced onto surrounding ‘boundary roads’. In this paper, we bring together large-scale sensor data and spatially-transcribed interview data from a case-study LTN to discuss how mixed methods analysis can help to ease the LTN controversy by revealing the multiple ways in which the ‘problem’ of congestion is understood.

Keywords: Mixed methods; Congestion; Low traffic neighbourhoods; Boundary road; London; Monitoring and evaluation; Traffic management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104360

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