Land Use and Built Environment

Navigating Seismic Shifts in Transportation

Susan Shaheen
Adam Cohen
2024

In the coming decades, converging innovations and technologies are likely to play a transformative role in transportation. In particular, the commodification of transportation coupled with vehicle automation will likely result in fundamental changes to cities by altering the built environment, costs, commute patterns, and modal choice. Naturally, vehicle automation will not inherently solve today's transportation challenges. To solve these challenges, the convergence of these mobility innovations requires thoughtful planning and public policies that balance societal goals with commercial...

An Assessment of the Viva CalleSJ Event in San Jose

Kos, Richard
Adam Cohen
2024

This report evaluates the Viva CalleSJ event held in San Jose, California, on September 8, 2024. As a celebrated open-streets initiative, Viva CalleSJ temporarily transformed six miles of city streets into car-free zones to encourage active transportation, foster community engagement, and support local businesses. This assessment employed a mixed-methods approach, including participant surveys, interviews with stakeholders, and observational analysis. Key findings highlighted the event’s success in attracting a diverse audience, promoting physical activity, and driving economic...

Integrated Approach to Sustainable Transportation, Land Use, and Building Design: Case of Luokou District, Jinan, China

Manish Shirgaokar
Elizabeth Deakin
Xinlan Zhang
2010

Due the pace and the scale of urban development in China, the implementation of sustainable urban practices there is an essential step in addressing climate change. Chinese officials are becoming increasingly interested in sustainable practices including transit-oriented development (TOD). However, even though the concept of TOD is supported, implementation sometimes falls short of desirable outcomes. In this paper, we present the preliminary results from a collaborative project carried out with planning officials from the city of Jinan (pop. 3.4 million), for a 3.1 km2 (1.15 mi2) district...

Integrating Building Energy Efficiency with Land Use and Transportation Planning in Jinan, China

Manish Shirgaokar
Elizabeth Deakin
Nicolae Duduta
2013

With the rapid growth occurring in the urban regions of China, it is critical to address issues of sustainability through practices that engender holistic energy efficient solutions. In this paper, we present results from a collaborative design project carried out with planning officials from the city of Jinan (population 3.4 million), for the Luokou district, a 3.1 km2 (1.2 mi2) area to the north of the CBD that is expected to house 100,000–130,000 people by 2020. By integrating sustainable building design, land use, urban design, and transportation, our proposal identified opportunities...

Socioeconomic Differences in Household Automobile Ownership Rates: Implications for Evacuation Policy

Elizabeth Deakin
Steven Raphael
Alan Berube
2006

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina has laid bare many of the disparities that continue to separate Americans by race and class. One disparity that was immediately apparent in Katrina’s aftermath concerned the size and composition of the area’s population lacking access to an automobile. These households, largely dependent on the limited emergency public transportation available to evacuate the city in advance of the storm, were those most likely to be left behind. In New Orleans, this population seemed quite large in size – and overwhelmingly black and poor.

Built Environment versus Personal Traits: an Application of Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Model (ICLV) in Understanding Modal Choice in Rome, Italy

Samira Ramezani
Barbara Pizzo
Elizabeth Deakin
2015

In spite of numerous applications of Integrated Choice and Latent Variable (ICLV) modelling in the field of transportation engineering, there is no published work applying it in studies of the effect of built environment on modal choice. This study uses an ICLV model to investigate the relative importance of built environment versus personal traits. It designs a quasiexperiment to elicit a better understanding of the causal effects of several urban form characteristics on modal choice. Findings suggest that built form can compete with the magnitude of the influence of personal traits, if...

Economic and Travel Impacts of Bypass Roads: A Comparative Study of Israel and the U.S.

Pnina Plaut
Elizabeth Deakin
2006

In this study we are documenting and comparing the economic and travel impacts of bypass roads in the United States and Israel on the towns near which they are constructed. Using historical research, on-site observations, interviews, surveys, and data analyses we consider the effects of bypasses on local and through traffic, travel patterns, development patterns, and the local urban economy in the immediately affected communities. We aim elucidate how road design, market forces, local politics, land use policies, planning and zoning and location-specific factors interact to produce the...

Struggling to Connect: Housing and Transportation Challenges of Low-Income Suburban Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area

Alexandra Pan
Elizabeth Deakin
Deakin Shaheen
2024

Suburban areas have lower density development than urban areas, which may make them less accessible for the growingpopulation of low- and moderate-income suburban residents, particularly those without a personal vehicle. This research examines factors that lead these households to move to suburban areas and identifies accessibility barriers they face. We use a mixed-methods approach with Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data from the U.S. Census, online/in-person surveys (n=208), and interviews conducted in English and Spanish (n=25) with households in Contra Costa County with an income...

Old Road, New Directions: Plan for Adeline Street in Berkeley, California

Julia Griswold
Aaron Malinoff
Karen Trapenberg Frick
Elizabeth Deakin
2011

This paper presents a plan for transforming a major arterial and a transit station that divide a low-income business and residential district into an economically healthy, context-sensitive, transit-oriented development. Adeline Street is a major point of entry into Berkeley, California, linking the city of Oakland on the south to the central districts of Berkeley. Formerly a major streetcar corridor, Adeline is now the location of a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station and a surface parking lot, for which housing and businesses were removed in the 1960s. The street's 180-ft right-of-way...

Transportation and Land Development

Elizabeth Deakin
Arthur C Nelson
Kristina Currans
David Lee
John Renne
2019

The Transportation and Land Development Committee (ADD30), a standing committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), was established in 1972 to improve the understanding of the interrelationships between transportation and patterns of urbanization, along with the economic, social, and environmental consequences of transportation and land development choices. Topics that fall within the committee’s purview include: the effect that transportation infrastructure has on urban form and development; the impact that urban form, development, and design has on travel behavior; the impact...