JTLU Volume 5, No. 2 (2012)

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Table of Contents:
  • Viewpoint: Triumph of the City, pp. 1-4
  • Community design and how much we drive, pp. 5-21
  • Urban form and travel behavior: Experience from a Nordic context, pp. 21-45
  • Understanding spatial variations in the impact of accessibility on land value using geographically weighted regression, pp. 46-59
  • The impact of a new light rail system on single-family property values in Charlotte, North Carolina, pp. 60-67
  • Impacts of low-speed vehicles on transportation infrastructure and safety, pp. 68-76
  • The effects of transport infrastructure on regional economic development: A simulated spatial overlapping generations model with heterogenous skill, pp. 77-101
  • Evaluating the effects of land use and strategies for parking and transit supply on mode choice of downtown commuters, pp. 103-119
  • Book Review: Transport for suburbia: Beyond the automobile age, pp. 121-122

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      Community design and how much we drive
      (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2012) Marshall, Wesley; Garrick, Norman
      The preponderance of evidence suggests that denser and more connected communities with a higher degree of mixed land uses results in fewer vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT). However, there is less agreement as the size of the effect. Also, there is no clear understanding as to the aspects of community design that are most important in contributing to lower VKT. One reason why there is some confusion on this point is that past studies have not always made a clear distinction between different community and street network design characteristics such as density, connectivity, and configuration. In this research, care was taken to fully characterize the different features of the street network including a street pattern classification system that works at the neighborhood level but also focuses on the citywide street network as a separate entity. We employ a spatial kriging analysis of NHTS data in combination with a generalized linear regression model in order to examine the extent to which community design and land use influence VKT in 24 California cities of populations from 30,000 to just over 100,000. Our results suggest that people living in denser street network designs tended to drive less. Connectivity, however, played an adverse role in performance.