THE INFLUENCE OF LAND USE ON TRAVEL BEHAVIOR: SPECIFICATION AND ESTIMATION STRATEGIES

Even though the relationship between urban form and travel behavior is a key element of many current planning initiatives aimed at reducing car travel, the literature faces 2 major problems. First, this relationship is extremely complex, and second, several specification and estimation issues are poorly addressed in prior work, possibly generating biased results. In this paper, the authors argue that many of the latter problems are overcome by systematically isolating the separable influences of urban design characteristics on travel and then properly analyzing individual-level data. The results that directly follow from alternative land use arrangements, as well as those that do not, are then clarified, thus identifying specific hypotheses to be tested against the data. More reliable tests of these hypotheses are then developed, and implications of alternative behavioral assumptions regarding travel costs are explored. The measured influence of land use on travel behavior is shown to be very sensitive to the form of the empirical strategy.

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• Authors:
  • Boarnet, M
  • Crane, R
• Publication Date: 2001-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 823-845
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile travel; Estimation theory; Forecasting; Land use; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Urban design; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00818459
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 20 2001 12:00AM