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Levine - Rethinking accessibility and jobs-housing balance

Rethinking accessibility and jobs-housing balance

Jonathan Levine. American Planning Association. Journal of the American Planning Association. Chicago: Spring 1998. Vol. 64, Iss. 2; pg. 133, 17 pgs

Abstract (Summary)

Through estimation of a discrete choice model of residential location, this study argues that commute time remains a dominant determinant of residential location at the regional scale, and that provision of affordable housing near employment concentrations can influence residential location decisions for low-to-moderate-income, single-worker households. However, the significance of jobs-hunting balance is not in reducing congestion; even when successful, such policies will have little impact on average travel speeds. Rather, the relaxation of suburban regulation that could lead to improved matches between home and workplace is seen as enhancing the range of households' choices about residence and transportation.

NPR : Study: Americans Commute an Average 25 Minutes

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Study: Americans Commute an Average 25 Minutes
Morning Edition, October 12, 2007 · A new study shows the average American commutes an average of 25 minutes. That's almost nine full days a year behind the wheel. Commutes have worsened over the last two decades because highways haven't kept pace with population growth and urban sprawl. If you work in New York City, your average commute is the worst in the country: almost 36 minutes long. For the nation's easiest commutes, you have to turn to the colder climes of Omaha and Buffalo.

Road work : a new highway pricing and investment policy / Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, Carol A. Evans.

Small, Kenneth A. . Road work : a new highway pricing and investment policy / Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, Carol A. Evans. [0815794703 (alk. paper) : ] Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1989.
Call#: Lippincott Library HE355 .S49 1989

America's suburban centers : the land use-transportation link / Robert Cervero.

Cervero, Robert. . America's suburban centers : the land use-transportation link / Robert Cervero. [0044453337 (alk. paper) ] Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HD5717.5.U6 C47 1989