Teaching Integrated Land Use-Transportation Planning

Teaching Integrated Land Use–Transportation Planning

Designing and Assessing a Teaching Laboratory for an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Course

land use–transportation (LUT). A master’s degree in urban planning is aimed at training students for careers as planners. Yet classroom lectures offer few opportunities to gain hands-on experience with zoning codes, data analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), or the synthesizing of multiple planning issues into a polished presentation or report. To develop practice-oriented skills stud...

Promoting active community environments through land use and transportation planning.

PURPOSE To examine the role of land use and transportation plans as policy instruments for promoting active community environments. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using multilevel models to examine whether active community environment scores were associated with leisure and transportation-related physical activity (PA) and whether associations varied by household income. SETTING 67 North C...

Ntegrating Land Use and Transportation Planning: a Strategic Approach

T he problems of urban sprawl-low-density residential and commercial development, road traffic congestion and high cost public transit systems are the result of the cumulative, long-term effect of disjointed planning decisions on the urban fabric. What is needed to offset the planning mistakes of the last 30 years is an integrated approach to land use and transportation planning. Existing plann...

Modeling Equilibria in Integrated Transportation-Land Use Models