Title: Structuralized Analysis of Urban Form Impacts on Travel Demand
Abstract:This paper describes how verifying how urban form impacts travel demand facilitates the design of urban development strategies of travel demand management and determining how improving the travel effi...This paper describes how verifying how urban form impacts travel demand facilitates the design of urban development strategies of travel demand management and determining how improving the travel efficiency affects new urban planning paradigms. Previous deductions or empirical analyses on this issue were fragmentary, and could not comprehensively recognize the complex relationships between urban form and travel demand. This study adopts structural equation modeling to perform an empirical analysis of Taipei City. Latent and observed variables are used to clarify the complex relationships between urban form and travel demand. Urban development strategies for travel demand management are also proposed according to the total effects among latent variables. Based on the empirical findings of this study, the authors conclude the following: increasing density increases trip generation rate and reduces private-mode choice; balance of mixed land-use reduces trip generation rate but increases private-mode choice, and pedestrian-friendly design of built environment significantly reduces private-mode choice. This research recommends urban development strategies to reduce trip generation and restrain private-mode choice, based on the empirical results.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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