The Personal Cost of Transportation
A new website created by the Center for Neighborhood Technology calculates how much an average household in your neighborhood would spend on transportation, with results for cars and public transit.
Tod Newcombe reports that the site "uses several sets of data to arrive at average transportation costs. They include money spent on car ownership for your community as well as public transit costs. Other data sets, taken from Census block group data, such as average commute times, job density, transit connectivity, and household income, are factored in."
Called Abogo, the site also calculates the average CO2 emissions related to transportation choice.
Over at the New York Times, reporter Tara Seigel Bernard talks with CNT head honcho Scott Bernstein:
"Abogo's Web site also provides a list of tips on ways to lower your costs. Reducing the number of miles you drive, for instance, may qualify you for a reduction on your insurance premium.
Ideally, Mr. Bernstein said you want to ask yourself this question: Can I spend most of my money within walking distance of my home?
- Login or register to post comments
- Email this page
- Does Living in a Poor Neighborhood Harm Your Health? - Nov 19, 2011
- Senate Approves Federal Funding for NJ Rail Tunnel - Nov 15, 2011
- Melbourne Ranked as Most Livable City - Sep 02, 2011
- What Downtown LA Would Like Without Cars (VIDEO) - May 09, 2011
- Energy Efficiency is about Location, Location, Location - Feb 25, 2011
Planetizen picks
Contribute
- Development of Driverless Cars Enters the Fast Lane in Nevada
- Pop-up Street Libraries Appear in New York
- Rebuilding the Long Forgotten Treasures of L.A.'s Golden Era
- How Post Office Closings Will Be Harmful to Rural Health
- Reconciling Redevelopment With a Salacious Past
- Guidelines on Privately Owned Public Spaces in S.F. Need Rethinking
- Mexico City Trash Pickers Fight for Their Livelihood
- Conference Points to Place, Not Race, As Health Determinant
- No Car? No Problem in Washington, D.C.
- Lessons Learned in Providing On-Site Open Space for Multifamily Developments
Request for Proposal (RFP) Professional Services for RFP Development and Evaluation
VIA Metropolitan Transit
Feb 21, 2012
www.flickr.com
|
