Active travel behavior and spatial-temporal land use mixing : final report.

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• Creators:
  Gehrke, Steven Robert
• Corporate Creators:
  Portland State University
• Contributors:
  Clifton, Kelly J. ; Monsere, Christopher M. ; Wang, Liming ; Dill, Jennifer
• Corporate Contributors:
  National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Land Use Land Use Mix Mixed Use Development Pedestrians Pedestrian Travel Smart Growth Travel Behavior Walking Work Trips Built Environment
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NITC-DIS-973
• Resource Type:
  Dissertation
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC)
• Abstract:
  Smart growth policies have often emphasized the importance of land use mix as an intervention beholding of lasting urban planning and public
  
  health benefits. Past transportation-land use research has identified potential efficiency gains achieved by mixed-use neighborhoods and the
  
  subsequent shortening of trip lengths; whereas, public health research has accredited increased land use mixing as an effective policy for
  
  facilitating greater physical activity. However, despite the celebrated transportation, land use, and health benefits of improved land use mixing
  
  and the extent of topical attention, no consensus has been reached regarding the conceptualization and measurement of this key smart growth
  
  principle or the magnitude of its link to walking. This dissertation, comprised of three empirical studies, explores this topic in detail.
  
  In the first study, activity-based transportation and landscape ecology theory contributed to the introduction of a multifaceted land use mix
  
  construct reflected by a set of composition and configuration indicators. This activity-related land use mix construct, and not the commonly
  
  used entropy index, was a significant built environmental determinant of walk mode choice and home-based walk trip frequency. In the second
  
  study, structural equation modeling was used to establish a connection between residing in a smart growth neighborhood and home-based
  
  pedestrian travel. This study discovered a multidimensional depiction of the traveler’s residential environment that was reflective of local land
  
  use mix, employment concentration, and pedestrian-oriented design. The second-order factor, which described a smart growth neighborhood,
  
  had a strong and positive effect on the household-level decision to walk for transportation-related and discretionary travel when assessed in a
  
  multidirectional conceptual framework.
  
  In the final study, the influence of geographic scale selection on the connection between the built environment and active and auto-related travel
  
  was explored. Informed by this sensitivity analysis, which underlined the existence of scaling and zoning effects, mode choice for both work
  
  and nonwork travel as a function of individual, household, transportation, and built environment features at the home location and destination
  
  was modeled. These discrete choice analysis results found that measures of land use mix and density at each trip end had the strongest effect on
  
  the decision to walk rather drive or ride in a vehicle for nonwork trips. In all, the findings from this dissertation provide policymakers and
  
  practitioners greater specificity in the measurement of land use mix and its connection to pedestrian travel behavior.
  
  
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• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
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