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Title:

A CLASSIFICATION OF URBANIZED AREAS FOR TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS

Accession Number:

00201312

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

THE 213 URBAN AREAS IN 1960 WERE TENTATIVELY SEGREGATED INTO FOUR POPULATION SIZE GROUPS AND WERE SUBDIVIDED, BASED ON POPULATION DENSITY, INTO THREE DENSITY CLASSES FOR EACH SIZE GROUP. AUTOMOBILE AVAILABILITY AND MODE OF TRANSPORT USED IN THE WORK TRIP WERE RATED PRIMARILY AS FUNCTIONS OF POPULATION SIZE AND DENSITY. POPULATION DENSITY, HOWEVER, WAS FOUND INADEQUATE TO EXPLAIN URBAN AREA VARIATIONS IN MOST OF THE SELECTED INDICATORS OF TRANSPORTATION AND SOCIO- ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS. THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN 6 DEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION VARIABLES AND 12 INDEPENDENT SOCIO- ECONOMIC VARIABLES IN EACH OF THE FOUR POPULATION SIZE GROUPS WAS ANALYZED USING STEP-WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION REGRESSION PROCEDURE. SEVERAL OF THE EQUATIONS DEVELOPED MAY BE USED TO ESTIMATE INDICATORS OF AUTO AVAILABILITY AND TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS. URBANIZED AREAS WERE REGROUPED IN TERMS OF THE RATIO OF AVAILABLE CARS TO EMPLOYED PERSONS. THE RESULTING URBAN AREA TYPES IN EACH SIZE GROUP DISPLAYED TRANSPORTATION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC, AND GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS. FURTHER TESTING OF THIS TYPOLOGY AS A BASIS FOR MICROANALYSIS OF TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS OF AN AREA TYPE WAS RECOMMENDED.

Supplemental Notes:

Paper sponsored by Committee on Economic Forecasting and presented at the 46th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01410144

Authors:

Bottiny, Walter H
Goley, Beatrice T

Pagination:

pp 32-61

Publication Date:

1967

Serial:

Highway Research Record

Issue Number: 194
Publisher: Highway Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (23) ; Tables (11)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Availability

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Nov 26 1994 12:00AM

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