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    Varying influences of the built environment on household travel in 15 diverse regions of the United States

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    Authors
    Ewing, R.
    Tian, G.
    Goates, J.
    Zhang, M.
    Greenwald, M.
    Joyce, A.
    Kircher, J.
    Greene, William
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ewing, R. and Tian, G. and Goates, J. and Zhang, M. and Greenwald, M. and Joyce, A. and Kircher, J. et al. 2015. Varying influences of the built environment on household travel in 15 diverse regions of the United States. Urban Studies. 52 (13): pp. 2330-2348.
    Source Title
    Urban Studies
    DOI
    10.1177/0042098014560991
    ISSN
    0042-0980
    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53169
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study pools household travel and built environment data from 15 diverse US regions to produce travel models with more external validity than any to date. It uses a large number of consistently defined built environmental variables to predict five household travel outcomes – car trips, walk trips, bike trips, transit trips and vehicle miles travelled (VMT). It employs multilevel modelling to account for the dependence of households in the same region on shared regional characteristics and estimates ‘hurdle’ models to account for the excess number of zero values in the distributions of dependent variables such as household transit trips. It tests built environment variables for three different buffer widths around household locations to see which scale best explains travel behaviour. The resulting models are appropriate for post-processing outputs of conventional travel demand models, and for sketch planning applications in traffic impact analysis, climate action planning and health impact assessment.

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