Reid Ewing (ewing@ arch. utah. edu) is a professor of city and metropolitan planning at the
University of Utah, chair of the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, and a …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners commonly recommend compact
development in part as a way of getting people to drive less, with the idea that less driving …

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 …

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 …

Transportation decisions clearly affect land-use patterns, and land-use decisions clearly
affect transportation systems. Urban theorists have addressed the cyclical land …

The role of the transportation system in fostering growth and affecting urban structure is of
great interest to academicians, planners, investors, and politicians. The notion that …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Advocates of accessibility as a transportation
performance metric often assert that it requires higher density. Conversely, traditional …

The literature on the relationship between land use and travel behavior is vast but messy. I
should know, as a contributor to this literature for more than 25 (how-did-thathappen) years …

Transportation infrastructure is vital to the economic growth and wellbeing of cities,
particularly in developing parts of the world, where transport investments account for as …

Beyond some studies relating density to mode choice, vehicle miles of travel, or gasoline
consumption, little is known about the relationship oflocation and land use to household …