Areas of urban sprawl are also characterized as highly dependent on automobiles for transportation, a condition known as automobile dependency.

Whether urban sprawl does increase problems of automobile dependency and whether conversely, policies of smart growth can reduce them have been fiercely contested issues over several decades.

This presumably raises the value of all property because the public and private properties are no longer devalued by the appearance and danger of excessive automobile dependency.

Trains would by-pass traffic congestion, reduce automobile dependency, improve air quality, and reduce demand for imported oil.

Whether the smart growth does or can reduce problems of automobile dependency associated with urban sprawl have been fiercely contested issues over several decades.

These development patterns encourage automobile dependency which contributes to the high long-term demand elasticities of road expansion.

Snellville's growth remained slow until the 1960s when the suburban development patterns of segregated uses and automobile dependency became commonplace.

Miles or km driven per year would also clarify the actual reduction in automobile dependency made.

This plan would allow the sprawling, low-lying sections of New Orleans built in the last century of automobile dependency to be returned to marsh.

It was argued that this was a deliberate destruction of streetcars as part of a larger strategy to push the United States into automobile dependency.