Understanding How Individuals Make Travel and Location Decisions: Implications for Public Transportation (2008) / Chapter Skim
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19 This chapter discusses the literature, theories, and data concerning the factors that influence where people choose to live, work, and travel. The first section presents major trends in population, employment, and mode choice in the United States.
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While these trends are not in dispute, there are alternative perceptions of what might happen in the future -- whether better land use and transportation policies could promote better outcomes. There is also vast interest in the potential for land use development programs called nontraditional, transit-oriented design (TOD)
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than normal role in these settlements, it can be observed that the selection of housing other than the single-family home varies over a family's life cycle. Figures 2-5 and 2-6 document the choice of higher density housing as a function of age and as a function of stage in the life cycle of one particular group in the population -- namely, family units of two parents with children.
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ure 2-6 as a function of age of the individual, with slightly more than 20% choosing higher density housing between ages 41 and 55. This rather basic tabulation from the National Household Travel Survey provides support for the concept that different stages of the life cycle (or age)
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while attempting to control for differences among communities, neighborhoods, and travelers" (p.
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ridership: "jointly developed office space atop or near a rail stop spurred ridership and ridership in turn spurred office development" (p.
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The better assessments are often made through development of regression or logit models. The resulting statistics almost always show, excepting certain narrowly focused investigations, that significant sources of variation in travel behavior still remain unexplained after key variables -- land use, urban form and transportation -- are incorporated, to a degree the same may be said of most conventional travel demand models, but not quite to the same extent.
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capture dynamic changes .
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differ on the relative importance of being close to work and of access to shopping. Other findings are found in several other surveys summarized in a review by Malizia and Exline (21)
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within a 5-year period; about half of these relocations are within the same metropolitan area. There is considerable consistency in the literature concerning the important factors affecting residential choice.
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