The Research On Planning Strategy Of The Scale Settlements’ Friendly Slow Traffic

Under the impetus of the rapid urbanization in our country, the number of private cars increases and the way of residents’ mechanization travel transforms motorcycles to cars. The structure of transportation has a fundamental change. The rapid growth of motor vehicles indeed brings convenient to residents, but also makes the urban traffic carbon emissions high. Urban environmental problems face the great challenge and threat, and it is against the development of low-carbon city. Slow traffic and public transport is low-carbon, energy-saving and environment-friendly, so it can meet both of the residents’ transportation and urban sustainable development.The settlements are the places where the urban residents work and live, they are the most basic living environment cells of cities. The residents spend half to two-thirds of time in the settlements and they are the main space of humans’ living. At the same time, the settlements occupy the largest proportion of urban land. They are the most concentrated part of residents’ activities and connected directly with the residents’ daily life, so the difference of settlements’ layout affects the residents’ travel mode choice directly. Under the international background of the low-carbon transport’s development concept, friendly slow traffic guides the settlements’ planning and construction, residents are encouraged to walk and cycle as a daily trip mode, and slow traffic will be effective connected with the urban public transportation system. It will reduce the settlements’ carbon dioxide emissions and become the important platform to realize low-carbon cities. In addition, slow traffic is also a lifestyle which is leisure, exercising and social. The settlements’ planning which is guided by friendly slow traffic will provide a favorable settlement environment for the residents and improve the settlements’ vitality. It will also make great contributions to cities’ energy conservation and emission reduction, so it is the key of low-carbon cities’ construction.The paper is divided into four parts and includes six chapters.The first part introduces the origin of the research, confirms the paper frame and shows the research status. The first chapter discusses the research background and significance of the topic, defines the research contents, scope and related concepts and puts forward the research ideas, research methods and framework of the paper. The second part shows and summarized the related theory researches and practices at home and abroad.The second part is the basic research of the paper. The third chapter firstly analyzes the relevant issues of the scale settlements’ friendly slow traffic in our country, shows the concept, connotation and elements of friendly slow traffic and analyzes the characteristics of residents’ slow traffic and psychological needs of those who choice slow traffic. Then combined with the actual construction of scale settlements in our country, the need-hierarchy of friendly slow traffic is structured. The connotation of friendly slow traffic’s needs is analyzed from five aspects which are functionality, accessibility, safety, comfort and pleasure. Finally under the guidance of three friendly slow traffic elements which are people friendly, space friendly and policy friendly, the Planning content system of settlements friendly slow traffic is structured. The main contents of the system are psychological need-hierarchy construction, physical environment planning, Planning integration and regulation.The third part uses demonstrations to research. It choices six typical scale settlements in Chongqing and analyzes the characteristics of Residents group, the characteristics of residents’ slow traffic and the satisfaction evaluation of slow traffic. Then the characteristics of the settlements’ physical environment planning are analyzed from the aspects which are land utilization, daily supporting facilities, road network, slow traffic environment and open space network. And the existing problems are rethought.The fourth part is the fifth chapter. It is the main part of the paper and summarizes the status. Under the guidance of Integrity, people-oriented and openness principle, the planning strategies of Chongqing scale settlements’ friendly slow traffic are proposed, including diversified land utilization planning strategy, supporting facilities planning friendly strategy, road network planning friendly strategy, slow traffic environment planning friendly strategy, open space planning friendly strategy. In the end of the paper, the relevant research results of the paper are summarized and the next research direction is proposed.