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Title:

Growth Management and Sustainable Transport: Do Growth Management Policies Promote Transit Use?

Accession Number:

01126811

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Although the concept of sustainability is somewhat elusive in the sense that it is defined and understood differently in different contexts, transit is typically considered a more sustainable transport mode. One critical question regarding urban transit is how do we encourage its use? In this paper, the authors focus on the effects of growth management policies on mode choice and transit use. WThe authors discuss and empirically analyze whether or not state-level growth management efforts contribute to promoting transit use and through what causal mechanisms. The authors argue that theoretically, state-level growth management policies should effectively increase transit use in two critical ways: first, by limiting core abandonment and accommodating potential increases in population (potentially avoiding unnecessary or fringe development); and second, by directing new development into areas where transit systems are already well established. The authors test this idea by analyzing 95 metropolitan areas across the U.S.; 16 within growth management jurisdiction, and 79 outside of growth management jurisdiction. The authors find that metropolitan areas that were contained within growth management program jurisdiction showed a statistically significant improvement in the percentage of commuters using transit. The results of this empirical analysis on causality however, suggest that the improvement is more likely due to an increase in occupancy rates (limiting core abandonment and potentially avoiding unnecessary development) rather than in shifting the location of new development to transit areas.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-3293

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Deal, Brian
Kim, Jae Hong
Pallathucheril, Varkki

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (5) ; References (30) ; Tables (3)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Growth management

Subject Areas:

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-3293

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 7:42PM