TRAVEL BEHAVIOR AS FUNCTION OF ACCESSIBILITY, LAND USE MIXING, AND LAND USE BALANCE: EVIDENCE FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

The relative significance and influence of a variety of measures of urban form on household vehicle kilometers traveled, automobile ownership, and mode choice were investigated. The travel data came from the 1990 San Francisco Bay Area travel surveys, and the land use data were largely constructed from hectare-level descriptions provided by the Association of Bay Area Governments. After demographic characteristics were controlled for, the measures of accessibility, land use mixing, and land use balance--computed for trip-makers' home neighborhoods and at trip ends--proved to be highly statistically significant and influential in their impact on all measures of travel behavior. In many cases, balance, mix, and accessibility were found to be more relevant (as measured by elasticities) than several household and traveler characteristics that often form a basis for travel behavior prediction. In contrast, under all but the vehicle ownership models, the impact of density was negligible after accessibility was controlled.

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  https://doi.org/10.3141/1607-16
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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1607, Transportation Forecasting and Travel Behavior.
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• Authors:
  • Kockelman, K M
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 116-125
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1607
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobile ownership; Mode choice; Travel behavior; Travel surveys; Vehicle miles of travel
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
• Old TRIS Terms: Land use balance; Land use mixing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00744761
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309062136
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 8 1998 12:00AM