Urban form, transit supply, and travel behavior in Latin America: Evidence from Mexico's 100 largest urban areas
This paper examines the relationship between urban form, transportation supply, and individuals' mode choice across Mexico's 100 largest urban areas. After documenting variation in mode choice, urban form, and vehicle ownership, the authors fit a multinomial logit model to data from 2.5 million commuters who reported a work commute on the 2015 Intercensus. They estimate whether a person commutes by transit, car, or walking/biking as a function of commuters' gender, age, employment status, household income, and seven measures of urban form and transportation supply. Across urban areas, commuters are less likely to drive in dense urban areas where jobs are spatially concentrated jobs and near population centers. Commuters are also less likely to drive in areas with better public transit supply and less roadway. Collectively the measures of urban form are as strongly related to the probability someone commutes to work by car as household income. Population density plays a particularly strongly role with an estimated elasticity four times as strong as recent studies from US urban areas. Taken together, the authors' findings suggest that land use planning and transportation investments can and do influence commute patterns. Recent public policies have almost certainly contributed to increased, rather than decreased driving and associated congestion, pollution, and traffic fatalities.
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- © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Guerra, Erick
- Caudillo, Camilo
- Monkkonen, Paavo
- Montejano, Jorge
- Publication Date: 2018-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 98-105
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Serial:
- Transport Policy
- Volume: 69
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0967-070X
- Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/096707X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Commuters; Commuting; Mode choice; Multinomial logits; Public transit; Supply; Travel behavior; Urban areas
- Uncontrolled Terms: Urban form
- Geographic Terms: Latin America; Mexico
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01678907
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 27 2018 2:05PM