The last two decades have witnessed the implementation of various policies based on land-
use to address problems stemming from automobile ownership and use. There are …

This chapter examines the extent to which land use planning can influence travel patterns
and how planning might be able to reduce travel. Although other studies have examined this …

Assumptions about the effects of various land-use characteristics on travel patterns have
found their way into diverse concepts of planning and design, such as the compact city and …

We examined the nonlinear associations of the built environment with travel distances by
driving, transit, and active travel and compared the relative contributions of local and …

Problem: Planning studies of land use and travel behavior focus on regression analysis of
travel as a function of traveler demographics and land use near study subjects' residences …

Increases in per capita vehicle usage and associated emissions have spawned an
increased examination of the ways in which our communities and regions are developing …

Several policy instruments are available to help reach goals in the area of transport, one of
them being land-use planning. For decades the impact of land use on transport has been …

Problem: Since the late 1980s, US metropolitan regions have increasingly engaged in a
style of land use–transportation scenario planning that merges techniques borrowed from …

Can neighborhood design improve traffic? Although a fair question in its own right, several
influential planning strategies, including “the new urbanism,”“smart growth,” and the …

The causality issue has become one of the key questions in the debate over the relationship
between the built environment and travel behavior. To ascertain whether changes to the …