Given the widespread use of automobiles for personal transportation in the United States with the associated dispersion of land uses and limited scope of public transportation, the travel of nondrivers is limited in many American municipalities. Although some governments have tried to improve nondriver accessibility by coordinating land use and transportation— specifically improving the proximity of bus stops, activity locations, and residences favored by nondrivers—no existing performance measurement technique for these government efforts toward nondrivers is known. By applying a model produced in an earlier effort based on surveyed outcomes to measure the impact of accessibility on the odds of nondrivers’ leaving their home on a given day, that is, travel odds, this paper presents a technique for measuring the performance of government in coordinating transportation and land use to improve nondriver accessibility. To improve low performance, the government may further apply this technique to visually identify the best neighborhoods on which to focus improvement efforts. The government can improve nondriver accessibility in these promising neighborhoods—and thereby efficiently improve nondriver accessibility in its jurisdiction—by using its zoning and budgetary powers to modify land use and expand bus service to position together activity locations, bus stops, and residences favored by nondrivers.


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    Title :

    Accessibility-Based Factors of Travel Odds


    Subtitle :

    Performance Measures for Coordination of Transportation and Land Use to Improve Nondriver Accessibility


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2011-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English