Travel and the built environment: a synthesis

R Ewing, R Cervero - Transportation research record, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The built environment and human activity patterns: exploring the impacts of urban form on public health

LD Frank, PO Engelke - Journal of planning literature, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
An increasing body of evidence suggests that moderate forms of physical activity (such as
walking and bicycling), when engaged in regularly, can have important beneficial effects on …

The influence of land use on travel behavior: specification and estimation strategies

M Boarnet, R Crane - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2001 - Elsevier
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 …

Built environment as determinant of walking behavior: Analyzing nonwork pedestrian travel in Portland, Oregon

MJ Greenwald, MG Boarnet - Transportation research record, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Much has been written about the connection between land use/urban form and
transportation from the perspective of affecting automobile trip generation. This addresses …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating neighborhood accessibility: Possibilities and practicalities

SL Handy, KJ Clifton - Journal of transportation and statistics, 2001 - Citeseer
Efforts to improve transportation choices and enhance accessibility at the neighborhood
level have been hampered by a lack of practical planning tools. This paper identifies the …

New Urban and Standard Suburban Subdivisions: Evaluating Psychological and Social Goals

BB Brown, VL Cropper - Journal of the American Planning …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Residents living in a New Urbanist subdivision (NUS) and a more standard suburban
subdivision (SSS) near Salt Lake City, UT, were interviewed to test whether residents of a …

Travel impacts of mixed land use neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington

E McCormack, GS Rutherford… - Transportation …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
In response to suburban transportation problems, developers and planners have suggested
that mixing land uses can reduce automobile dependency by making more goods and …

Assessing traveler responsiveness to land and location based accessibility and mobility solutions

MW Sermons, N Seredich - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2001 - Elsevier
In this paper, a joint multinomial logit (MNL) model of residential location and vehicle
availability choice is formulated and estimated using a sample of households from the San …

Quantifying spatial characteristics for travel behavior models

S Srinivasan - Transportation Research Record, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Land use initiatives represent a potentially effective tool for coping with the kinds of mobility
patterns that North American cities face in the 1990s and in the coming century. As fine …

City density and public transport: a review of three recent publications

G Pund - Australian Planner, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Reurbanising and sustainability na recent article in Australian Planner (Vo1. 36 No. 2)
Professor Peter Newman concludes that there is an environmental and economic imperative …