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Title:

Beyond the Built Environment at Home: Does Compact Development Along Commuting Routes Reduce Driving and Conserve Fuel?

Accession Number:

01475773

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

While extensive research has investigated how the built environment near people’s homes and work places influence automobile travel behavior, little is known about how commuting routes affect travel outcomes. This article presents an empirical study of the influences of the built environment along commuting routes on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and fuel consumption for non-work automobile travel. Using a unique Global Positioning Systems (GPS) dataset collected from automobile trips of 46 drivers from the Southeast Michigan area over a 30 day time frame, this study identifies the actual commuting routes for all drivers and derives their fuel consumption for non-work travel. The results do not support the contention that commuting routes characterized by more compact and mixed-use development have the effect of reducing non-work VMT and fuel consumption. This study is unique in its focus on the commuting routes and in establishing a method for using GPS data in transportation and land-use research, and it offers suggestions for refining the modeling of travel behavior along commuting routes.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Transportation and Land Development.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-0107

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Wang, Xiaoguang
Grengs, Joe
Kostyniuk, Lidia

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Southeast Michigan

Subject Areas:

Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-0107

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:11PM