The usefulness of land use and transportation approaches including new urbanism, smart
growth, transit villages, and jobs-housing balance is frequently assessed based on the …

Do policies to encourage compact, mixed use, pedestrian-friendly land-use patterns reduce
driving? Not necessarily. Understanding how the built environment affects travel patterns is …

Planners and urban designers are increasingly concerned with the question of how
alternative forms of development affect travel patterns and with the more specific question of …

Various “new suburb” land-use designs have recently been proposed to address a number
of social and environmental problems, including the dominance of automobile travel …

Problem: Planning studies of land use and travel behavior focus on regression analysis of
travel as a function of traveler demographics and land use near study subjects' residences …

Transportation and land use research of the past decade has focused in large part on the
question of whether manipulating land uses in the direction of “smart growth” alternatives …

In JPER volume 15, Crane (1996b) challenged the New Urbanist arguments that urban
design traits such as street orientation, density, mix of land uses, and transit access …

Residents of dense, mixed-use, transit-accessible neighborhoods use autos less. Recent
studies have suggested that this relationship is partly because transit-preferring and walk …

Previous studies suggest that there is an unmet demand for pedestrian-and transit-oriented
development. However, most of these studies used the stated-choice method, which has …

This paper analyzes the transportation and land-use preference and actual neighborhood
choices of a sample of 1,455 residents of metro Atlanta. We develop a stated-preference …