Integration of Land Transportation

Towards a Behavioral Integration of Land Use and Transportation Modeling

This paper examines the linkages between household choices of housing and job location, vehicle ownership, and activity and travel patterns to develop a behavioral framework for integrating land use and transportation models. It assesses the interdependence of these choices, the processes used to represent them, and alternative methodological frameworks to represent them in an operational model...

Urban Transportation and Land Use

This chapter is an introduction to the economics of the connection between urban transportation and land use. The nature of the transportation system strongly influences the patterns of land use in an urban area. Indeed, the long-run histories of urban areas sometimes are identified with the dominant mode of transportation of the time; the age of rail, the age of the automobile, and so on. Supp...

Coordinating Transportation and Land Use

ITE JOURNAL / JUNE 2006 INTRODUCTION Throughout the United States, awareness of the critical linkages between transportation and land use is growing. State and regional transportation agencies are realizing that local jurisdictions’ land use decisions can help minimize infrastructure investment needs while improving safety, mobility and accessibility for their customers, the traveling public. L...

Teaching Integrated Land Use–Transportation Planning

How Land-Use-Transportation Models work