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inevitability of automobility: How private car use is perpetuated in a greenfield housing estate Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jennifer L. Kent
Ongoing advances in technologies of connectivity have strengthened our capacity to envision urban environments less dominated by private car use. Yet many cities remain attached to, and defined by, the automobile. In challenging this status quo, we must understand the complex and varied ways private car use is reinforced in different urban environments. This paper provides such an understanding in
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Planning for cycling in local government: Insights from national surveys in Australia and New Zealand Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Courtney Babb,Sam McLeod,Conor Noone
Despite a broad consensus that cycling can address a range of transportation issues, many countries have struggled to institute measures to increase cycling participation. Even for cities that have achieved marked progress, there remains a gap in making cycling a truly normative mode of transportation. The practical problem of translating research and converting policy vision into broad-based cycling
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Mapping opportunity in time and space: An inductive approach Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 David Hoelzel,Joachim Scheiner
Several authors delineate “geographies of opportunity,” which are assumed to influence individual life courses. In transport geography and related subjects, “opportunity” is a term that is frequently used to circumscribe dynamics of spatial and social mobility. However, previous approaches to opportunity usually apply deductive reasoning in such a way that opportunity represents a local feature whose
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Not enough parking, you say? A study of garage use and parking supply for single-family homes in Sacramento and implications for ADUs Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Jamey Volker,Calvin Thigpen
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are increasingly touted as part of the solution to the intransigent housing shortages facing many metropolitan areas across the United States. But numerous barriers to ADU development persist, including opposition by neighboring households. One persistent question is whether ADU residents would overwhelm on-street parking in the predominately single-family neighborhoods
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What the heck is a choice rider? A theoretical framework and empirical model Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Erick Guerra
As local, state, and federal agencies began investing substantial resources into subsidizing transit in the 1960s and ‘70s, public documents argued that transit agencies should focus on attracting choice riders instead of dependent riders, who have no alternatives and use transit regardless of service quality. After six decades, the definitions, uses, and implications of the terms choice and dependent
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Car dependency beyond land use: Can a standardized built environment indicator predict car use? Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Eva Van Eenoo,Koos Fransen,Kobe Boussauw
In June 2019, the government of the Flemish Region (Belgium) launched the “mobility score,” a standardized built environment indicator that informs citizens in Flanders about the walking or cycling accessibility from their dwelling to a range of basic amenities and public transport stops. The development of the mobility score was developed to be a tool to raise awareness of the environmental impact
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Traffic-land use compatibility and street design impacts of automated driving in Vienna, Austria Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Emilia Bruck,Aggelos Soteropoulos
The potential rise of automated vehicles (AVs) may significantly impact future traffic volumes, in turn affecting urban street designs and adjacent land use. While integrated studies on potential traffic and land-use changes due to AVs largely concern issues of location choice and changing settlement patterns, assessments of how AVs may influence the quality of streets depending on the requirements
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Calculating place-based transit accessibility: Methods, tools and algorithmic dependence Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Christopher Higgins,Matthew Palm,Amber DeJohn,Luna Xi,James Vaughan,Steven Farber,Michael Widener,Eric Miller
To capture the complex relationships between transportation and land use, researchers and practitioners are increasingly using place-based measures of transportation accessibility to support a broad range of planning goals. This research reviews the state-of-the-art in applied transportation accessibility measurement and performs a comparative evaluation of software tools for calculating accessibility
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Which dots to connect? Employment centers and commuting inequalities in Bogotá Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Javier Peña,Luis A, Guzman,Julian Arellana
Accessibility and equality evaluations have been primarily focused on residential location. However, workplace location might be an equivalent contributor to inequalities in the travel experience and accessibility. Traditionally, transport planning connects high-demand areas with the best-quality and capacity transport infrastructures. Literature supports that employment centers (EC) receive mainly
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Modal equity of accessibility to healthcare in Recife, Brazil Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Boer Cui,Genevieve Boisjoly,Bernardo Serra,Ahmed El-Geneidy
In the context of increasing urbanization and income inequality, transport professionals in the Global South need to be prepared to effectively plan for the needs of various groups within the population, particularly for those regarding health and well-being. Accessibility is widely used as a performance measure for land use and transport systems; it measures people’s ease of reaching desired destinations
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Whose express access? Assessing the equity implications of bus express routes in Montreal, Canada Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 James DeWeese,Manuel Santana Palacios,Anastasia Belikow,Ahmed El-Geneidy
Express buses—characterized by limited stops and sometimes higher frequencies or priority traffic measures—offer a cost-effective and efficient way to boost service convenience and reliability for riders. This paper assesses how the accessibility benefits of express bus route policy are distributed in Montreal, Canada, while providing a pathway for public transportation agencies to assess their policies
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Accessibility: Distribution across diverse populations Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Kristin Carlson,Andrew Owen
High-resolution data are used to evaluate the distribution of job accessibility among workers at the national, state, regional, and urban scales. Annually updated accessibility datasets produced by the National Accessibility Evaluation are paired with Census data to tie accessibility, jobs, and worker information at the block level. Minnesota is selected as a case study for analyzing accessibility
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Advances in pedestrian travel monitoring: Temporal patterns and spatial characteristics using pedestrian push-button data from Utah traffic signals Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Prasanna Humagain,Patrick Singleton
In this study, we advanced pedestrian travel monitoring using a novel data source: pedestrian push-button presses obtained from archived traffic signal controller logs at more than 1,500 signalized intersections in Utah over one year. The purposes of this study were to: (1) quantify pedestrian activity patterns; (2) create factor groups and expansion/adjustment factors from these temporal patterns;
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Public transport strategy: Minimal service vs. competitor to the car Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Cecília Silva,Catarina Cadima,Nayanne Castro,Aud Tennoy
With regard to public policy for public transport services, two dominant approaches are found: the provision of minimal services to the car-less population, or the provision of a service that competes directly with the car (in terms of time, cost, convenience, etc.). Increased acknowledgement of the need to mitigate traffic growth and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has led to a growing need
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Spatiotemporal effects of proximity to metro extension on housing price dynamics in Manhattan, New York City Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 ChengHe Guan,Mark Junjie Tan,Richard Peiser
Investment in public transportation such as a metro line extension is often capitalized partially into housing values due to the spatiotemporal effects. Using housing transaction data from 2014 to 2019, this paper studies the Second Avenue Subway or Q-line extension in New York’s City’s Manhattan borough. Multiple metro station catchment areas were investigated using spatial autocorrelation-corrected
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Mobility and accessibility paradigms in Dutch policies: An empirical analysis Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Ruben Akse,Tom Thomas,Karst Geurs
To promote sustainable urban development, transport policies need to change from a car-oriented mobility planning paradigm to an accessibility-based paradigm, integrating land-use and transport policies. This paper uses the concept of planning paradigms to describe the current status of municipal transport planning and problem framing. The dominant transport planning paradigm of 172 Dutch municipalities
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Developing vehicular and non-vehicular trip generation models for mid-rise residential buildings in Kelowna, British Columbia: Assessing the impact of built environment, land use, and neighborhood characteristics Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-21 Muntahith Orvin,Daryus Ahmed,Mahmudur Fatmi,Gordon Lovegrove
This study develops vehicular and non-vehicular trip generation models for mid-rise, multi-family residential developments. A comparative analysis of observed and Instiutue of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip rates suggests that ITE rates consistently overestimate. A latent segmentation-based negative binomial (LSNB) model is developed to improve the methodology for estimating vehicular and non-vehicular
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The evolution of choice set formation in dwelling and location with rising prices: A decadal panel analysis in the Greater Toronto Area Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-21 Jason Hawkins,Khandker Nurul Habib
Home location choice is based on both the characteristics of the dwelling (e.g., size, style, number of bedrooms) and the location (e.g., proximity to work, quality of schools, accessibility). Recent years have seen a steep increase in the price of housing in many major cities. In this research, we examine how these price increases are affecting the types of dwelling and locations considered by households
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The effects of pedestrian and bicycle exposure on crash risk in Minneapolis Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Tao Tao,Greg Lindsey,Jason Cao,Jueyu Wang
Exposure to risk is a theoretically important correlate of crash risk, but many safety performance functions (SPFs) for pedestrian and bicycle traffic have yet to include the mode-specific measures of exposure. When SPFs are used in the systematic approach to assess network-wide crash risk, the omission of the exposure potentially could affect the identification of high-risk locations. Using crash
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Place quality in high-speed rail station areas: Concept definition Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Jinglun Du,Oana Druta,Pieter Van Wesemael
High-speed railway (HSR) station areas are expected to benefit urban environments, not simply as transportation or economic hubs but also as urban places contributing to living quality. However, the relationship between HSR and place quality has not received systematic attention, despite the evolution of urban planning paradigms toward a clearer focus on quality of life. We have reviewed 44 academic
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Exploring the interaction effect of poverty concentration and transit service on highway traffic during the COVID-19 lockdown Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Tao Tao,Jason Cao
During COVID-19 lockdowns, transit agencies need to respond to the decline in travel but also maintain the essential mobility of transit-dependent people. However, there are a few lessons that scholars and practitioners can learn from. Using highway traffic data in the Twin Cities, this study applies a generalized additive model to explore the relationships among the share of low-income population
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Association of perceived environment walkability with purposive and discursive walking for urban design strategies Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Hsu-Sheng Hsieh,Min-Ta Chuang
The relationship between the built environment and walking behavior has been explored extensively. However, little research has been done to either differentiate between walking for transport and walking as activity or that applies urban design tools to walkability improvement based on environment-walking associations. Therefore, this study constructed perceived environment walkability factors to replace
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Satisfaction with travel, ideal commuting, and accessibility to employment Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 John P. Pritchard,Karst Geurs,Diego B. Tomasiello,Anne Slovic,Adelaide Nardocci,Prashant Kumar,Mariana Giannotti,Alex Hagen-Zanker
This paper explores relationships between commuting times, job accessibility, and commuting satisfaction based on a large-scale survey applied in the Greater London Area (GLA), the municipality of São Paulo (MSP) and the Dutch Randstad (NLR). Potential accessibility to jobs is estimated under 3 different scenarios: reported actual commuting times (ACT), ideal commuting times (ICT), and maximum willingness
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Viewpoint: Turning streets into housing Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Adam Millard-Ball
I argue that wide residential streets in US cities are both a contributor to homelessness and a potential strategy to provide more affordable housing. In residential neighborhoods, subdivision ordinances typically set binding standards for street width, far in excess of what is economically optimal or what private developers and residents would likely prefer. These street width standards are one contributor
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Chasing the city that cannot stop: Exploring transportation and urban co-development in São Paulo’s history Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Adriano Borges Costa,P. Christopher Zegras,Ciro Biderman
We present a historical analysis of transportation and urban development in São Paulo (Brazil), attempting to discern Granger causal effects using historical land-use and transportation data from 1881 to 2013. Our results align with the hypothesis commonly stated in the literature about the relevance of road transportation in São Paulo’s peripheral urban expansion during the twentieth century. We find
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A literature review on park-and-rides Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Antora Mohsena Haque,Candace Brakewood,Shahrbanoo Rezaei,Anahita Khojandi
American cities have been implementing park-and-rides (PNRs) since the 1930s; however, there has been a recent resurgence of literature examining this type of transit station. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the current literature on PNRs and directions for future research. PNR studies published in the last ten years were reviewed and text mining was applied to extract key themes
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Exploring the benefits of minimobility in the urban context: The case of central Stockholm Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-26 William Riggs,Shivani Shukla
Over the past decade, there has been rapid growth in the development and infusion of new and disruptive transportation. Some of the pivotal emergent technologies range from micro-mobility and bikeshare to ridesourcing that is set to utilize automated vehicles. This paper introduces and defines minimobility that falls between a regular ridesourcing/taxi option and micromobility, and also providing critical
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Residential location choice and its effects on travel satisfaction in a context of short-term transnational relocation Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Mayara Moraes Monteiro,João De Abreu e Silva,Nuno Afonso,Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson,Sousa Jorge Pinho de
Temporary opportunities for studying and working abroad have been growing globally and intensifying the movement of highly skilled temporary populations. To attract this group, cities need to address their residential and mobility needs. This study focuses on factors influencing residential and travel satisfaction of transnational temporary residents, highlighting the occurrence of residential self-selection
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A system of shared autonomous vehicles for Chicago: Understanding the effects of geofencing the service Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy,Joshua Auld,Kara Kockelman
With autonomous vehicles (AVs) still in the testing phase, researchers and planners must resort to simulation techniques to explore possible futures regarding shared and automated mobility. An agent-based discrete-event transport simulator, POLARIS, is used in this study to simulate travel in the 20-county Chicago region with a shared AV (SAV) mobility option. Using this framework, the effect of an
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If you build it, they will change: Evaluating the impact of commuter rail stations on real estate values and neighborhood composition in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, the Netherlands Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Amir Forouhar,Dea Van Lierop
In many metropolitan regions, transit-oriented developments are built to motivate the use of sustainable travel by promoting urban growth within walking distances of public transport stations. Changes in residential property values are a common way to assess the success of transit-oriented developments. However, studies that focus on property values alone have reported mixed effects. This paper attempts
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Human rights to the street: Ethical frameworks to guide planning, design, and engineering decisions toward livability, equity, and justice Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Bruce Appleyard,William Riggs
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in statements about people’s rights to our streets. Drawing broadly from the literature and from an examination of a comprehensive collection of these rights, this article works toward establishing a comprehensive ethical framework that can be used to guide planning, design and engineering decisions to support pedestrian rights for street and urban livability
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Exposure, timing, and vulnerability: The role of public transport in inducing gentrification Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Malithi Fernando,Eva Heinen,Daniel Johnson
Gentrification is an increasingly common phenomenon in many urban neighbourhoods. While cities invest in more sustainable travel options for their residents, there is limited literature on its connection to gentrification of the surrounding areas. Understanding whether these investments induce gentrification is essential to ensure the positive impacts of public transport are not undermined by the displacement
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Planning a high-frequency transfer-based bus network: How do we get there? Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Emily Grise,Anson Stewart,Ahmed El-Geneidy
As cities have grown more dispersed and auto-oriented, demand for travel has become increasingly difficult to meet via public transit. Public transit ridership, particularly bus ridership, has recently been on the decline in many urban areas in Canada and the United States, and many agencies have either undergone or are planning comprehensive bus network redesigns in response. While comprehensive bus
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Household structure and urban opportunities: Evaluating differences in the accessibility to jobs, education and leisure in São Paulo Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-30 Tatiana Kolodin Ferrari,Flávia Da Fonseca Feitosa,Diego Bogado Tomasiello,Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro
Household structure has been recognized as an important element of residential location choice. The aim of this work is to understand how the spatial configuration resulting from these location choices could cause differentials in terms of urban life and opportunities. To do so, a weighted gravitational accessibility index is applied to the São Paulo Metropolitan Area to investigate the differences
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Land use uncertainty in transportation forecast Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Hana Sevcikova,Brice Nichols
Using an integrated land use and travel model system implemented for the Puget Sound region in Washington state, a Bayesian Melding technique is applied to represent variations in land use outcomes, and is propagated into travel choices across a multi-year agent-based simulation. A scenario is considered where zoned capacity is increased around light rail stations. Samples are drawn from the posterior
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Impacts of light rail in a mid-sized city: Evidence from Olsztyn, Poland Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-23 Adam Radzimski,Jedrzej Gadzinski
Investments in light rail transit (LRT) have become increasingly popular solutions to promote sustainable urban transportation. However, their impacts on cities are still subject to discussion in the academic community. There is a clear need to better understand the potential impacts of LRT projects, particularly in contexts other than major cities. In this study, we focus on the Olsztyn tram project
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Infrastructure is not enough: Interactions between the environment, socioeconomic disadvantage, and cycling participation in England Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Eugeni Vidal Tortosa,Robin Lovelace,Eva Heinen,Richard P. Mann
Cycling can be particularly beneficial for socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. First, because it can allow them to access opportunities that by other modes they may not afford. Secondly, because it can increase their physical activity levels and, consequently, improve their health. We analyse the extent to which socioeconomic disadvantage impacts on cycling participation in England, for both
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Investigation on railway investment-induced neighborhood change and local spatial spillover effects in Nagoya, Japan Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Lisha Wang,Meilan JIANG,Tomio MIWA,Takayuki MORIKAWA
Previous studies have proven the significant causal relationship between railway investment and gentrification in some cities. However, most of them have focused on the gentry and less on the effect on other social classes. To observe how railway investment affects neighborhood change for different population types, this study investigated the investment effects of two urban railway lines separately
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Relationship between urban tourism traffic and tourism land use: A case study of Xiamen Island Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Yueer Gao,Yanqing Liao,Donggen Wang,Yongguang Zou
The development of tourism leads to changes in land-use demands and patterns, which are complex and dynamic, in tourist cities. Functional differences in land use produce different travel needs and have different impacts on traffic, especially on tourism. This paper explores the relationship between tourism land use and tourism traffic. Taking Xiamen Island as an example, using multivariable linear
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How does neighborhood walkability affect obesity? The mediating role of commute mode Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Wenyue Yang,Xinyu Zhen,Suhong Zhou
The walkability of a neighborhood is closely related to residents’ travel behavior and daily life and, ultimately, their health and wellbeing. Although existing studies in this area have reached some enlightening conclusions, few of them have considered residents’ travel attitudes and preferences, or the mediating role of commute mode. Do travel attitudes and preferences matter in the relationship
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Modeling enterprise location choice decision behavior Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Nguyen Cao Y
This study presents a location choice model that incorporates urban spatial effects for enterprises. A modeling framework is developed to analyze decisions regarding location choice for enterprises using a series of discrete choice models including multinomial logit without any urban spatial effects, multinomial logit incorporating urban spatial effects, and mixed logit incorporating urban spatial
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Shorter commutes, but for whom? Comparing the distributional effects of Bus Rapid Transit on commute times in Cape Town, South Africa, and Barranquilla, Colombia Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Manuel Santana Palacios,Lisa Rayle
Bus rapid transit has become an increasingly popular investment in cities in the Global South, where policy discourse often positions BRT as a pro-poor investment. Planners usually expect BRT to reduce commute times in urban areas, particularly for economically disadvantaged populations, thus reducing mobility gaps between transit users across different socioeconomic population groups. Despite increased
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Parking and competition for space in urban neighborhoods: Residents’ perceptions of traffic and parking-related conflicts Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Franziska Kirschner
The infrastructure for parking and parked cars themselves (e.g., parked cars blocking bike lanes and sidewalks or the visibility range) can lead to conflicts for pedestrians and cyclists. The perception of conflicts could discourage walking and cycling in neighborhoods and undermine municipalities’ efforts to provide more sustainable urban mobility. The aim of this study was therefore to analyze the
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Metro station inauguration, housing prices, and transportation accessibility: Tehran case study Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-25 Yekta Yazdanifard,Hosein Joshaghani,Masoud Talebian
The opening of a new metro station, as a mode of the transportation corridor, potentially could have different effects on housing prices. We have investigated its effect on the value of residential properties around those stations, using data from large expansions of the metro network in Tehran, Iran. In the period of our study (April 2010 to December 2018), forty-five metro stations were inaugurated
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Accessibility and uncertainty: An empirical analysis of option value in transport Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-24 Anders Bondemark,Erik Johansson,Fredrik Kopsch
Are there option values for transport services? A few studies have tried to answer this question through various stated preference methods, but we do not know much about its magnitude in different contexts. In this paper, we summarize the theory on option value, present previous empirical work concerning transport, and discuss its links to accessibility. Accessibility can be seen as the end product
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relationship between urban form and mode choice in US and Mexican cities: A comparative analysis of workers’ commutes Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-24 Erick Guerra,Meiqing Li
This paper examines empirical relationships among commuters’ mode choice, metropolitan urban form, and socioeconomic attributes in the 100 largest urban areas in the United States and Mexico. Fitting multinomial logit models to data for more than 5 million commuters and their home urban area, we find several consistent relationships and several important differences in relationships among urban form
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brief discussion on the treatment of spatial correlation in multinomial discrete models Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Francisco Bahamonde-Birke
Spatial dependence plays a key role in all phenomena involving the geographic space, such as the social processes associated with transport and land use. Nevertheless, spatial dependence in multinomial discrete models has not received the same level of attention as have the other kinds of correlations in the discrete modeling literature, mainly due to the complexity of its treatment. This paper aims
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Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Benjamin Kaufman,Abraham Leung,Matthew Burke
Demand responsive transit (DRT) is attracting increased attention as a means to provide public transit to low-density populations. This research aims to provide a suite of evaluation metrics with low data requirement and widespread availability, so that operators, funders, regulators, and practitioners can better evaluate the performance of DRT services. Trip numbers can be divided by a number of available
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Traffic noise feedback in agent-based Integrated Land-Use/Transport Models Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Nico Kuehnel,Dominik Ziemke,Rolf Moeckel
Road traffic is a common source of negative environmental externalities such as noise and air pollution. While existing transport models are capable of accurately representing environmental stressors of road traffic, this is less true for integrated land-use/transport models. So-called land-use-transport-environment models aim to integrate environmental impacts. However, the environmental implications
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Modelling children’s independent territorial range by discretionary and nondiscretionary trips Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Samia Sharmin,Md. Kamruzzaman,Md. Mazharul Haque
The decline of children’s independent mobility (CIM) is now a global concern. This study aims to identify the determinants of the territorial range (TR) of CIM, i.e., the geographical distance between home and places where children are allowed to wander. TR for both discretionary and nondiscretionary trips is studied based on data collected through a questionnaire survey, travel diary, and mapping
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Shifting perspectives: A comparison of travel-time-based and carbon-based accessibility landscapes Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Julia Kinigadner,David Vale,Benjamin Büttner,Gebhard Wulfhorst
Undoubtedly, climate change and its mitigation have emerged as main topics in public discourse. While accessibility planning is recognized for supporting sustainable urban and transport development in general, the specific challenge of reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions has rarely been directly addressed. Traditionally, accessibility is operationalized in line with the user perception
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Differences in ride-hailing adoption by older Californians among types of locations Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Manish Shirgaokar,Aditi Misra,Asha Weinstein Agrawal,Martin Wachs,Bonnie Dobbs
Ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber can complement rides offered by family, friends, paid providers, and public transit. To learn why older adults might wish to use ride-hail, we conducted an online survey of 2,917 California respondents age 55 and older. Participants were asked whether they would value four features hypothesized to be benefits of ride-hailing. We specified binary logit models
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framework to generate virtual cities as sandboxes for land use-transport interaction models Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-28 Rounaq Basu,Roberto Ponce-Lopez,Joseph Ferreira
One of the major critiques of land use-transport interaction (LUTI) models over the ages has been their over-dependence on individualized software and context. In an effort to address some of these concerns, this study proposes a framework to construct "virtual cities" that can act as sandboxes for testing different features of a LUTI model, as well as provide the capability to compare different LUTI
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Transit-oriented development for older adults: A survey of current practices among transit agencies and local governments in the US Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Michael Duncan,Kristin Gladwin,Brittany Wood,Yazmin Valdez Torres,Mark Horner
This study seeks to examine the ways in which transit agencies and local governments have been considering the transportation needs of older adults when planning for transit-oriented development (TOD). Surveys with representatives from a sample of transit agencies (n= 15) and local governments (n=31) from across the US were conducted. Few of the surveyed agencies indicated that they had specific practices
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opportunity cost of parking requirements: Would Silicon Valley be richer if its parking requirements were lower? Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 C.J. Gabbe,Michael Manville,Taner Osman
We estimate the off-street parking supply of the seven most economically productive cities in Santa Clara County, California, better known as Silicon Valley. Using assessor data, municipal zoning data, and visual inspection of aerial imagery, we estimate that about 13 percent of the land area in these cities is devoted to parking, and that more than half of the average commercial parcel is parking
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An agent-based transportation impact sketch planning (TISP) model system Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-14 Ayad Hammadi,Eric J Miller
A traffic impact sketch planning (TISP) model is presented for the estimation of the likely travel demand generated by a major land-use development or redevelopment project. The proposed approach overcomes the problems with the non-behavioral transportation-related studies used in practice for assessing the development design impacts on the local transportation system. The architectural design of the
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Drawing the map: The creation and regulation of geographic constraints on shared bikes and e-scooters in San Francisco, CA Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Marcel Moran
A prominent question in transportation planning is how cities should regulate emerging modes, such as shared bikes and e-scooters. This pertains to a range of attributes, including pricing, use of the public right of way, number of vehicles in a fleet, and vehicle speeds. However, less attention has been paid to the way private operators spatially constrain access to their fleets, such as via the use
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role of perceived satisfaction and the built environment on the frequency of cycle-commuting Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Tomás Echiburú,Ricardo Hurtubia,Juan Carlos Muñoz
Understanding how several street attributes influence the frequency of cycle commuting is relevant for policymaking in urban planning. However, to better understand the impact of the built environment on people's choices, we must understand the subjective experience of individuals while cycling. This study examines the relationship between perceived satisfaction and the attributes of the built environment
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needs-gap analysis of street space allocation Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Gabriel Lefebvre-Ropars,Catherine Morency,Paula Negron-Poblete
Streets have long been designed to maximize motor vehicle throughput, ignoring other street users. Many cities are now reversing this trend and implementing policies to design more equitable streets. However, few existing tools and metrics enable widescale assessment, evaluation, and longitudinal tracking of these street space rebalancing efforts, i.e., assessing how equitable the current street design
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Finding the right tools for the job: Instrument mixes for land use and transport integration in the Netherlands Journal of Transport and Land Use (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Marijn T. Van Geet,Sander Lenferink,Tim Busscher,Jos Arts
Governments have widely established policy goals, which span the domains of land use and transport. Despite these integrated ambitions, government action often remains fragmented. This study adopts an instrumental perspective to encourage land-use and transport integration (LUTI). So far, the existing literature on this subject has adopted a single-instrument perspective and has been primarily focused