PLANNED RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS

PEOPLE'S OVERALL RESPONSES TO SELECTED, PLANNED RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR RESPONSES TO PARTICULAR FEATURES OF THESE ENVIRONMENTS WERE ASSESSED, AND AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN PLANNED RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND COMPARED WITH SIMILAR DEMANDS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN MORE TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL SURROUNDINGS. INTERVIEWS WERE HELD IN TEN COMMUNITIES SELECTED TO REPRESENT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PLANNING. WHETHER A NEIGHBORHOOD IS "WELL KEPT UP" IS THE BEST SINGLE PREDICTOR OF NEIGHBORHOOD SATISFACTION. THE COMPATABILITY OF NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS IS THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR. INTOWN RESIDENTS DRIVE FEWER MILES PER YEAR THAN TOSE IN SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES. FOR THE COMMUNITIES STUDIED, ABOUT 11,000 TO 16,000 MILES IS TYPICAL IN THE INNER CITY AREAS COMPARED TO ROUGHLY 21,000 IN THE SUBURBS. THE AVERAGE JOURNEY TO WORK IS ABOUT THREE MILES FOR THE TWO INNER CITY COMMUNITIES AND TWELVE MILES FOR THE PERIPHERAL COMMUNITIES. IN THE CENTRALLY LOCATED COMMUNITIES PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS USED MORE OFTEN BUT MORE PEOPLE DRIVE TO WORK THAN USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. THE MEAN NUMBER OF VEHICLE TRIPS PER FAMILY IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD ACROSS ALL TEN COMMUNITIES IS 7.6 THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE WHO VALUE HAVING BUS SERVICE AVAILABLE IS HIGHER THAN THE PROPORTION WHO USE IT. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Institute for Social Research
  426 Thompson Street
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109
• Authors:
  • Lansing, J B
  • Marans, R W
  • Zehner, R B
• Publication Date: 1970

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Bus transportation; Development; Environment; Land use planning; Neighborhoods; Public transit; Residential areas; Suburbs; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mileage
• Old TRIS Terms: Planned development
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Motor Carriers; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00239995
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 269 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 8 1971 12:00AM