01010796

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1902-07

http://scholar.google.com...hang&publication_year=2005

This study was motivated by the need for more empirical research on the urban form-travel connection. A two-tiered travel effect is expected from strengthening the urban form-travel connection: the enhancement of access to choices and a shift in travel mode choice from driving to nondriving. Existing studies have focused primarily on the second-tier effect but have largely omitted the first. This study attempted to fill that gap. Through joint-logit modeling of choice set formation and travel mode choice in three cities—Boston, Massachusetts; Portland, Oregon; and Houston, Texas—the study measured the degree of automobile dependence in the three cities. It also estimated elasticities of automobile dependence and of driving probabilities with respect to land use densification, transit access improvement, and control of motorization. There were large variations in the levels of automobile dependence and their elasticity estimates among the three cities. Public policies aimed at reducing automobile dependence should be formulated and evaluated based not just on the final outcome of modal split but also on the provision of travel options to travelers. As cities differ in their existing urban forms, currently available transportation services, and prevailing preferences of travel, it is important to recognize that the same set of policy strategies implemented in different cities is unlikely to generate the same level of effects in reducing automobile dependence.

01010784

English

0000-0002-4827-1323

pp 55-62

2005

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309093722

Print

References (43) ; Tables (4)

Access; Disaggregate analysis; Elasticity (Economics); Land use; Mode choice; Public policy

Automobile dependence; Urban form

Boston (Massachusetts); Houston (Texas); Portland (Oregon)

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 29 2005 11:46AM

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