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Title:

Neighborhood Character and Travel Behavior: Comprehensive Analysis of the United States in the 2000s

Accession Number:

01595653

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

While a large number of studies have examined the effects of various measures of the built environment on travel behavior outcomes, far fewer have combined such measures to create a holistic description of the built environment in order to investigate how the overall character of a neighborhood relates to the travel decisions of residents. To address this gap in the literature, the authors develop a neighborhood typology by applying factor analysis and then cluster analysis to a set of 20 variables describing built environment characteristics for most census tracts in the United States. Based on the results of the analysis, the authors characterize each census tract as belonging to one of seven distinct types: Rural, New Development, Patchwork (mostly suburban), Established Suburbs, Urban Residential, Old Urban, or Mixed-use (mostly urban). The authors incorporate these types into a set of multivariate regression models to determine the effect of neighborhood type on the travel behavior of neighborhood residents. Controlling for personal and household characteristics, the authors find relatively little variation in the number of daily trips among neighborhood types, but substantial neighborhood variation in both personal miles traveled and mode choice. Travel by residents of the Old Urban neighborhood type, which is found almost exclusively in a handful of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, is particularly distinctive and is distinguished by a very low number miles traveled, little solo driving, and high transit use.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Neighborhood Character and Travel Behavior: A Comprehensive Analysis of the U.S. in the 2000s.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-2942

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Voulgaris, Carole Turley

ORCID 0000-0003-0556-924X

Blumenberg, Evelyn
Taylor, Brian D
Brown, Anne
Ralph, Kelcie M

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-2942

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 5:19PM