Título

Urban form, transit supply, and travel behavior in Latin America: Evidence from Mexico's 100 largest urban areas

Autor

Erick Guerra

Camilo Caudillo

Paavo Monkkonen

Jorge Alberto Montejano Escamilla

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Licencia

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Identificador alterno

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.06.001

Materias

Transit - (AUTOR) Urban form - (AUTOR) Travel behavior - (AUTOR) Mode choice - (AUTOR) CIENCIAS SOCIALES - (CTI) GEOGRAFÍA - (CTI) GEOGRAFÍA REGIONAL - (CTI) GEOGRAFÍA URBANA - (CTI) GEOGRAFÍA URBANA - (CTI)

Resumen o descripción

This paper examines the relationship between urban form, transportation supply, and individuals' mode choice across Mexico's 100 largest urban areas. After documenting variation in mode choice, urban form, and vehicle ownership, we fit a multinomial logit model to data from 2.5 million commuters who reported a work commute on the 2015 Intercensus. We estimate whether a person commutes by transit, car, or walking/biking as a function of commuters' gender, age, employment status, household income, and seven measures of urban form and transportation supply. Across urban areas, commuters are less likely to drive in dense urban areas where jobs are spatially concentrated jobs and near population centers. Commuters are also less likely to drive in areas with better public transit supply and less roadway. Collectively the measures of urban form are as strongly related to the probability someone commutes to work by car as household income. Population density plays a particularly strongly role with an estimated elasticity four times as strong as recent studies from US urban areas. Taken together, our findings suggest that land use planning and transportation investments can and do influence commute patterns. Recent public policies have almost certainly contributed to increased, rather than decreased driving and associated congestion, pollution, and traffic fatalities.

Editor

Elsevier

Fecha de publicación

octubre de 2018

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Versión de la publicación

Versión publicada

Recurso de información

http://centrogeo.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1012/250

Formato

application/pdf

Fuente

Transport Policy Volume 69, October 2018, Pages 98-105

Idioma

Inglés

Audiencia

Estudiantes

Investigadores

Maestros

Repositorio Orígen

Repositorio Institucional de CENTROGEO

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