Fun With Statistics: Factors Affecting Motor Vehicle Travel
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A few graphs provide insights into factors that affect the amount of motor vehicle travel in a community, and how driving can be reduced.
Automobile Dependency in Action
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These examples illustrate how biased planning favors longer-distance, motorized travel over shorter, active, affordable, energy efficient, less polluting, and healthier travel options, and sprawl over compact infill development. It's time for reform.
Breaking the Cycle of Automobile Dependency
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Many current planning practices reinforce a cycle of increased automobile use, more automobile-oriented community redevelopment, and reduced mobility options. There are good reasons to break this pattern.
What the Market Can Bear: Defining Limits to Inclusive Housing Requirements
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Inclusivity requirements should be used with caution. Increasing the portion of below-market housing units tends to reduce total housing production, particularly moderate-priced homes.
Seeing the Urban Forest for the Trees
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It is important to focus on forests rather than individual trees when evaluating trade-offs between infill and sprawled development.
No, Traffic Congestion Does Not Really Cost Every American $1,348 Annually
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The INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard exaggerates congestion costs in order to enhance the value of its traffic monitoring services. A little skepticism is justified.
Can Upzoning Increase Housing Supply and Affordability?
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Increasing allowable densities and reducing parking requirements are important strategies for achieving long-term planning goals, but to succeed they must be applied to large areas.
A Better Travel Experience
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Transportation engineers sometimes treat people as objects to be moved as quickly and cheaply as possible from one location to another, but people have preferences and feelings which should be considered when planning transport systems.
Toward More Comprehensive Multi-Modal Transport Planning
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Transportation planning is undergoing a paradigm shift. The new paradigm is more multi-modal and comprehensive, and so can better respond to changing travel demands and emerging community needs.
Planning for Crime Reduction
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Few issues are more emotional, and therefore vulnerable to bad analysis, than urban crime risk. Solid research indicates that more compact and mixed development tends to increase neighborhood security. Jane Jacobs was right!