Do shifts in the racial and ethnic composition of a neighborhood lead to extreme changes in commuting times? evidence from New York City

From 2000 to 2016, NYC average commuting times increased by a marginal 0.24 s across all transit modes. Depending on one’s viewpoint, this could be a policy success due to no significant increase in commuting times or it could be a policy failure due to no substantial decrease in commuting time over almost two decades. Nevertheless, many census tracts actually experienced extreme increases or decreases in commuting times. The goal of this paper is to examine these extreme changes by focusing on understanding how changes in census tracts', racial and ethnic compositions influence commuting time changes. Analyzing NYC as a case study, logistic regressions with eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) are used to identify the likelihood of extreme changes in commuting time from 2000 to 2016 given changes in various neighborhood characteristics. Overall, census tracts experiencing increases in Black, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino residents, female-headed households, and workers in professional occupations as well as higher highway densities are likely to have experienced extreme increases in commuting times. Meanwhile, census tracts experiencing increases in White residents, income, rental occupancy, housing burden, and proportions of their census tract within a subway shed are likely to have experienced extreme decreases in commuting times. The results for race and ethnicity support existing research indicating that racial and ethnic minorities are likelier to experience longer commuting times compared to White residents. The importance of this research, though, lies in showing that even when overall commuting times remain relatively stable, racial/ethnic minorities still face commuting disadvantages.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100775
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X24000383
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2024 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Marshall Baker, Dwayne
  • López-García, David
  • 0000-0001-8979-0720
• Publication Date: 2024-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 100775
• Serial:
  • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2214-367X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2214367X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuting; Ethnic groups; Neighborhoods; Race; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation disadvantaged persons
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01913383
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 2024 4:58PM