Choices Versus Choice Sets: A Commuting Spectrum Method for Representing Job--Housing Possibilities

Conclusions in empirical studies of commuting and urban spatial structure depend on the selection of measures for the job–housing relationship. In order to help to develop urban growth strategies based on coherent empirical results, this paper presents a ‘commuting spectrum’ approach as an alternative to existing job–housing relationship measures. With this approach, 2 hypothetical and extreme commuting possibilities are conceptualized as measures for job–housing relationship and location-choice sets. Simulation in a stylized region and empirical results for Boston and Atlanta indicate that the proposed method can track local and regional aspects of job–housing relationship changes. The revealed association between commuting length and the job–housing relationship is consistent from the perspectives of neighborhood-level comparison, multiyear comparison, and interregion comparison.

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• Authors:
  • Yang, Jiawen
  • Ferreira Jr, Joseph
• Publication Date: 2008-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 364-378
• Serial:
  • Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Pion Limited
  • ISSN: 0265-8135

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Commuting; Mode choice; Residential areas; Travel behavior; Work trips
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01165219
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 19 2010 11:16AM