New data for relating land use and urban form to private passenger vehicle miles.
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2013-08-01
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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.
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