Problem: Localities and states are turning to land planning and urban design for help in
reducing automobile use and related social and environmental costs. The effects of such …

The potential to moderate travel demand through changes in the built environment is the
subject of more than 50 recent empirical studies. The majority of recent studies are …

Mixed findings have been reported in previous research regarding the impact of built
environment on travel behavior—ie, statistically and practically significant effects found in a …

Much of the literature shows that a compact city with well-mixed land use tends to produce
lower vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and consequently lower energy consumption and less …

While the relationship between urban form and travel behavior is a key element of many
current planning initiatives aimed at reducing car travel, the literature faces two major …

The sprawling patterns of land development common to metropolitan areas of the US have
been blamed for high levels of automobile travel, and thus for air quality problems. In …

This study pools household travel and built environment data from 15 diverse US regions to
produce travel models with more external validity than any to date. It uses a large number of …

Some of today's most troubling urban problems ñ sprawl, congestion, air pollution ñ are
prompting more and more US localities to turn to land planning and urban design for help in …

There has been an increasing interest in the land use-transportation connection in the past
decade, motivated by the possibility that design policies associated with the built …

The causality issue has become one of the key questions in the debate over the relationship
between the built environment and travel behavior. Since a residential self-selection effect …