Self-selection in home choice: Use of treatment effects in evaluating relationship between built environment and travel behavior

B Zhou, KM Kockelman - Transportation Research Record, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The role of self-selection in shaping travel patterns, by affecting one's home location choice,
is a critical issue. Developers, planners, and policy makers regularly debate to what extent …

Examining the impacts of residential self-selection on travel behavior: A focus on methodologies

PL Mokhtarian, X Cao - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2008 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have found that suburban residents drive more and walk less than
residents in traditional neighborhoods. What is less well understood is the extent to which …

Exploring the influences of density on travel behavior using propensity score matching

X Cao, Y Fan - Environment and Planning B: Planning and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The causality issue has become one of the key questions in the debate over the relationship
between the built environment and travel behavior. Since a residential self-selection effect …

Quantifying residential self-selection effects: A review of methods and findings from applications of propensity score and sample selection approaches

PL Mokhtarian, D van Herick - Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2016 - JSTOR
The phenomenon whereby individuals self-select into their residential environment based
on previously determined preferences for how to travel is known as residential self-selection …

Modeling residential sorting effects to understand the impact of the built environment on commute mode choice

AR Pinjari, RM Pendyala, CR Bhat, PA Waddell - Transportation, 2007 - Springer
This paper presents an examination of the significance of residential sorting or self selection
effects in understanding the impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use …

Residential self-selection in quasi-experimental and natural experimental studies

E Heinen, R Mackett, B van Wee, D Ogilvie… - Journal of transport and …, 2018 - JSTOR
Despite a large body of research suggesting that the built environment influences individual
travel behavior, uncertainty remains about the true nature, size, and strength of any causal …

Examining the impacts of residential self-selection on travel behavior: Methodologies and empirical findings

X Cao, PL Mokhtarian, S Handy - 2006 - torrossa.com
Numerous studies have observed that residents of higher-density, mixeduse
(“traditional”,“neo-traditional”, or “new urbanist”) neighborhoods tend to walk more and drive …

[HTML][HTML] How much does the method matter? An empirical comparison of ways to quantify the influence of residential self-selection

D van Herick, PL Mokhtarian - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Various techniques have been applied to address residential self-selection (RSS) bias in
estimating the impact of the built environment on travel behavior. We investigate how much …

Residential self-selection in the relationships between the built environment and travel behavior: Introduction to the special issue

X Cao - Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2014 - JSTOR
A large number of studies have explored the relationships between the built environment
and travel behavior since the 1990s. In most developed countries and fast-growing …

Residential self‐selection and appropriate control variables in land use: Travel studies

P Næss - Transport Reviews, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Several researchers within the field of land use and travel have claimed that self‐selection of
residents into geographical locations matching their travelling preferences precludes …