ACCESSIBILITY- VS. MOBILITY-ENHANCING STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING AUTOMOBILE DEPENDENCE IN THE U.S. by

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Travel Patterns of the Elderly

This report examines relationships between residential location and travel patterns of the elderly. Using the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, we describe travel patterns of the elderly and estimate models of trip making, daily travel and transit use. Travel tends to shift to the middle part of the day with age, and trip making declines after age 75. We find that land use and tra...

Thirteen Most Common Trends Shaping Automobile Dependence Worldwide and the Global Implications of these Trends Kenya

Walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.Today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

Visualizing Accessibility with GIS

Introduction As the environmental, social, and health costs of sprawling, automobile dependent development patterns become well understood, accessibility, or walkability, becomes a significant goal of planners, policy makers, and citizens. Our current planning environment is one of auto-mobility, which has the goal of reducing the cost per mile of travel within a metropolitan area. An automobil...

The Mobility - Productivity Paradox Exploring The Negative Relationships Between Mobility and Economic Productivity

This paper explores a paradox: negative correlations between indicators of mobility (such as VMT) and productivity (such as GDP), and positive correlations between mobility constraints (higher road use prices or traffic congestion) and productivity. These relationships contradict common assumptions that policies and projects that increase vehicle travel (roadway expansions and lower road user p...