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PUBLICATION
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MTI Report 05-03
Can Consumer Information Tighten The Transportation/Land-Use Link? A
Simulation Experiment
Principal Investigator: Daniel A. Rodriquez, Ph.D. and Jonathan Levine,
Ph.D.
Where people live, work, shop, and recreate fundamentally determines
their local travel options. In this
study, we use an experimental research design to test how strongly the
dissemination of integrated
accessibility and housing information influences individuals’ residential
location choices. We hypothesize
that individuals who receive information about accessibility to transit and
accessibility to important
destinations in an area as part of each rental unit listing they see are
more likely to choose to live in high accessibility
neighborhoods than are individuals who do not receive such information.
This research is
motivated by the prospect of using information as a policy intervention to
allow householders to self-select
into areas that facilitate walking, cycling, transit use, and shorter trips
generally.
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ABSTRACT
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Our results suggest two main findings: Providing bundled accessibility
and housing information resulted
in the selection of preferred locations that were closer to major
destinations, as compared to the selections
of individuals without access to the information; and individuals in the
experimental group selected
properties closer to transit lines that serve their destinations than
members of the control group. Thus,
providing housing seekers with information about their transit options from
each unit may influence certain
population subgroups to choose more transit-friendly locations than they
would otherwise select.
Our findings have implications for both the research and policy
communities. At the level of public policy,
the results suggest that information targeted towards individuals who are
relocating can be used to enhance
the attractiveness of locations that support multiple travel modes.
Transportation and urban planners,
health promoters, transit agencies, universities, and other institutions
interested in promoting walking,
bicycling, and transit use will find our results useful. For researchers,
our results provide new evidence about
how the connection between transportation and land use can be strengthened
through policy attention that
focuses on how transportation information can guide locational decisions.
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ABOUT
THE AUTHORS
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DANIEL A. RODRÍGUEZ, PH.D.
Dr. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in City and Regional Planning
at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He holds a Bachelor of
Science in
business from Fordham University, a Master of Science in Transportation
from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Urban,
Technological, and Environmental Planning from the University of Michigan.
His research focuses on the connection between transportation, land use,
and
activity. He recently coauthored the fifth edition of Urban Land Use Planning,
to be published by University of Illinois Press in 2006.
JONATHAN LEVINE, PH.D.
Dr. Levine is Associate Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional
Planning in
the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of
Michigan. His interests are in transportation and land-use policy. He
has
completed two previous Mineta Transportation Institute projects: Developer-
Planner Interaction in Transportation and Land Use Sustainability (with
Aseem
Inam and Richard Werbel), and Land Use and Transportation
Alternatives:
Constraint or Expansion of Household Choices? (with Aseem Inam,
Richard
Webel, and Gwo-Wei Torng). He recently completed a book on transportation
and land-use issues, entitled Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and
Choices in
Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use, to be published by
Resources for the
Future Press in September 2005.
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TECHNICAL
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MTI Report 05-03
Can Consumer Information Tighten The Transportation/Land-Use Link? A
Simulation Experiment
Principal Investigators: Daniel A. Rodriquez, Ph.D and Jonathan
Levine, Ph.D.
Published: March 2006
Keywords: Information dissemination; Public transit; Transportation
planning; Urban planning; Urban transportation
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MTI
Report 05-03
Can Consumer Information Tighten The
Transportation/Land-Use Link? A Simulation Experiment
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Levine, Ph.D.
Published: March 2006
Keywords: Information dissemination; Public transit; Transportation planning; Urban planning; Urban transportation
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