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 …

Global concern about fossil fuel use and associated environmental externalities has led
many governments to consider actions that encourage their residents to drive less. This …

Can urban design improve the environment? If communities could be designed to reduce
automobile use, then yes. But can urban design influence travel? Surprisingly perhaps, the …

Do policies to encourage compact, mixed use, pedestrian-friendly land-use patterns reduce
driving? Not necessarily. Understanding how the built environment affects travel patterns is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A now substantial body of literature finds that land use and urban form have a statistically
significant, albeit relatively modest, effect on travel behavior. Some scholars have suggested …

The importance of travel attitudes and residential choice in the relationship between the built
environment and travel behavior has long been debated in transportation literature. In this …

The causality issue has become one of the key questions in the debate over the
relationships between the built environment and travel behavior. Although previous studies …