Residential location, urban form, and household transportation spending in Greater Buenos Aires

In this paper, the authors examine the empirical relationship between how much individual households spend on transportation and measures of where they live in Greater Buenos Aires in terms of job accessibility, distance to the downtown, neighborhood density, land use diversity, and intersection density. Collectively, these neighborhood attributes are associated with less driving and with more walking, biking, and transit use, and thus may to lead to reduced transportation expenditures. The paper makes three primary contributions to the literature on housing and transportation affordability. First, the analysis adds another example to the small but growing body of work that directly examines the relationship between urban form and individual households' transportation spending. Second, this paper is one of just two to examine the relationship between urban form and household expenditures in a Latin American context, and the first to include both transit costs and monthly car costs (including tolls, maintenance and parking). Third and finally, the study has potential implications for local officials interested in using land use, regulatory, or investment policies to make Buenos Aires more affordable for lower income residents.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.08.018
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692318300929
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  • © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Guerra, Erick
  • Caudillo, Camilo
  • Goytia, Cynthia
  • 0000-0002-9751-4600
  • Quiros, Tatiana Peralta
  • Rodriguez, Camila
• Publication Date: 2018-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 76-85
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0966-6923
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobile travel; Bicycling; Expenditures; Households; Jobs; Land use; Neighborhoods; Population density; Public transit; Residential location; Urban areas; Walking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Urban form
• Geographic Terms: Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01682263
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 2018 11:19AM