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Studies that investigate land use impacts from transport infrastructure often rely on a quasi-experimental design approach. This method aims to mimic true experiments by drawing comparisons between test and control group samples. In transport and land use research, these groups usually correspond to areas affected by a change in transport infrastructure or land use and areas that are not affected by those changes. The selection of proper control sites is based on various criteria, such as demographic variables (income, age, household size), transport variables (accessibility, travel time), and/or land use variables (zoning, density, mix of land use). This paper aims to develop a methodological approach to the selection of control group sites on the grounds of socio-economic and geographical characteristics in a case study of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Brisbane, Australia. This work reviews the previous literature on criteria selection for control groups and further develops a statistical model to determine criteria for this specific study. On that basis, the model assigns a similarity index to every site in the dataset. It outputs cluster groups of similar values that occur to be the most suitable for validation across the full urban area.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP050 Standing Committee on Bus Transit Systems.

18-06143

English

8p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Bus rapid transit; Control groups; Infrastructure; Land use; Traffic distribution

Brisbane (Australia)

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06143

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:35AM