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Modeling the Effect of Land Use on Person Miles Traveled by Using Geographically Weighted Regression

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01479036

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Abstract:

This study contributes to the literature by developing a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model for capturing the effect of land use on person miles traveled (PMT) and demonstrating its benefits over simpler methods. Travel survey and land use data from southeast Florida were used in this analysis. The empirical results reconfirm the strong effects of regional accessibility, land use mixing, and connectivity on PMT. These land use effects were estimated to be significant after controlling for socioeconomic variables. Further, the GWR model demonstrated that the marginal sensitivities of PMT to various land use attributes vary over space. This spatial variation was particularly strong in the case of the effect of regional accessibility. Empirical results show that allowing for flexible trends in the parameter effects improves the models and explains a greater proportion of the variance in PMT across the region. The study also highlights the statistical superiority of the GWR model over the global regression models.

Monograph Title:

Planning 2013

Monograph Accession #:

01520753

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-4782

Language:

English

Authors:

Nowrouzian, Roosbeh
Srinivasan, Sivaramakrishnan

Pagination:

pp 108–116

Publication Date:

2013

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2397
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309294850

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (29) ; Tables (6)

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Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:55PM

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