Does the livability of a residential street depend on the characteristics of the neighboring street network? : research brief.

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• Creators:
  Marshall, Wesley E. ; McAndrews, Carolyn A. ; Janson, Bruce N.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Mountain-Plains Consortium
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Neighborhoods
  • Streets
  • Living conditions
  • Residential streets
  • Quality of life
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MPC 16-309 (project 426)
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mountain-Plains Consortium
• Abstract:
  The character of the nearby arterial road influences residential ; livability across a number of livability measures. When ; controlling for income, high levels of traffic and low levels of ; urban design on the arterial both detract from the livability of ; those living in the surrounding neighborhoods. Moreover, some ; results suggest that residential streets with heavy traffic near a ; low traffic/high design arterial are just as livable, if not more, than ; residential streets with light traffic near a high traffic/low design ; arterial. ; Our study includes three different measures of residential ; satisfaction, so the specific influence of the arterial road depends ; on whether one focuses on satisfaction with the neighborhood ; street, satisfaction with the neighborhood, or overall sense of ; happiness. The results suggest that arterials perceived as vibrant ; are associated with increased residential satisfaction – above and ; beyond other features of the residential environment.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31409/dot_31409_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 898.19 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6dc5353babe54bd33d673594f0ede959ea9240827d404db0ee8b1bf2b93f4758d5e0cb002e79554a03c7814ecbf0a1f6ac9e5e42f921159edfc4802a4e014d95