New data for relating land use and urban form to private passenger vehicle miles.

Details

• Creators:
  Ferreira, Joseph
• Corporate Creators:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Vehicle miles of travel
  • Residential location
  • Land use
  • Spatial analysis
  • Geographic information systems
  • Demographics
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Private passenger vehicles
  • Travel patterns
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MITR21-4
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  New England University Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  This research project developed the most extensive and spatially detailed analysis of ; annual vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by type of vehicle, place of residence, and land use ; pattern. We combined a unique Massachusetts State dataset of annual odometer ; readings since 2001 for more than six million vehicles with GIS data layers of housing, ; infrastructure, and demographic characteristics in order to associate actual miles driven ; (for private passenger vehicles) with place of garaging at a very fine grain of spatial ; detail. The work involved close collaboration with MassGIS (the State's GIS Office) and ; the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), two key state and regional ; planning agencies involved in the policy analysis and modeling of land use, growth ; management, and transportation strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26589/dot_26589_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 197.35 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8c6f51aa0c28301894d5751d0b13db2cc4523a5dd72d577ad97147575c1226f8