The link between the built environment and human behavior has long been of interest to the
field of urban planning, but direct assessments of the links between the built environment …

Background: Physical inactivity is associated with multiple adverse health outcomes. Results
from the transportation literature suggest that aspects of the urban environment may …

P revention that morbidity by and behavior mortality change. in populations Behavior public
dependent health goal on can beof achieved changeisa is valid theory. We believe the …

Previous work with data from the Boston Metropolitan Area has suggested that land use
characteristics can have measurable impacts on travel behavior such as trip linking and …

Land-use initiatives represent a potentially effective tool for coping with the kinds of mobility
pattern that North American cities faced in the 1990s and still face in the present century. As …

A structured survey of transit agency staff and interviews with agency executives and other
local leaders were conducted in areas that have undertaken a major transit investment …

Transportation engineering and transportation planning are two sides of the same coin
aiming at the design of an efficient infrastructure and service to meet the growing needs for …

Urban planning and design, to me, are fascinating fields of work. They are present anytime
and anywhere, they shape the world we live in and offer us a land of opportunities (and …

This book is about the policymaking of public agencies in large American cities. Based on a
decade of research, it studies urban mass transit in terms of the factors that bias the …

Transportation and land use research that considers such alternatives as New Urbanist
development, jobs-housing balance, transit villages, or “smart growth” most typically tests …