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Geographical and statistical analysis on the relationship between land-use mixture and home-based trip making and more: Case of Richmond, Virginia
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Abstract Richmond, Virginia has implemented numerous mixed land-use policies to
encourage non-private-vehicle commuting for decades based on the best practices of other
cities and the assumption that land-use mixture would positively lead to trip reduction. This
paper uses both Geographical Information Sy... view more
Richmond, Virginia has implemented numerous mixed land-use policies to
encourage non-private-vehicle commuting for decades based on the best practices of other
cities and the assumption that land-use mixture would positively lead to trip reduction. This
paper uses both Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical tools to empirically
test this hypothesis. With local land use and trip making data as inputs, it first calculates
two common indices of land-use mixture - entropy and dissimilarity indices, using GIS tool,
supplemented by Microsoft Excel. Afterwards, it uses Statistical Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS) to calculate the correlation matrices among land-use mixture indices,
socioeconomic variables, and home-based work/other trip rates, followed by a series of
regression model runs on these variables. Through this study, it has been found that landuse mixture has some but weak effects on home-based work trip rate, and virtually no
effects on home-based other trip rate. In contrast, socioeconomic variables, especially auto
ownership, have larger effects on home-based trip making.... view less
Keywords
land utilization; regional mobility; choice of means of transport; commuter; traffic behavior; socioeconomic factors; United States of America
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
land-use mixture; socioeconomic variables; home-based trip rates; entropy index; dissimilarity index
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 5-44
Journal
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 5 (2013) 1
ISSN
2067-4082
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed