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Researchers have been parsing which components of the built environment contribute to outcomes of interest and to what degree, particularly the effects on vehicle use and walking. Increasingly, researchers and practitioners recognize that the type of neighborhood may affect individual travel behaviors. Neighborhoods reflect a bundle of various land use and transportation system characteristics. These contexts can be constructed as different neighborhood or place types. But not all place types are constructed with the same use, purpose, or methods. This paper reviews three classifications of place typologies—urban design, data-driven, and area/development-based—to better understand their purpose and appropriate application to research, policy, and practice. Data-driven approaches are either categorical or composite in nature; both appear to be satisfactory approaches to constructing place types that predict travel behavior. Area/development types account for the intensity of neighborhood development and also the neighborhood’s role in the region, which is important considering the critical role of scale in studying and predicting travel behavior. Urban design typologies are more subjective in nature but offer a level of detail about the streetscape that is useful for creating intersections of street type with place type.

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

18-06380

English

15p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Built environment; Measurement; Mode choice; Travel behavior; Urban design; Urban development

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General)

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06380

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:39AM