Land Use and Built Environment

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...

Impact of Peak and Off-Peak Tolls on Traffic in San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge Corridor in California

Ian Barnes
Karen Trapenberg Frick
Elizabeth Deakin
Alexander Skabardonis
2012

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge is located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area in California and connects two of the largest cities in northern California over San Francisco Bay. In July 2010, the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) increased tolls on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge from a flat toll collected westbound only to weekday peak and off-peak tolls. BATA also instituted a carpool toll of $2.50 (previously carpools crossed for free) payable by FasTrak electronic toll collection tag only. With floating-car data provided by BATA, the change in travel time for the I-80, I...

Multi-Lane Hybrid Traffic Flow Model: Quantifying the Impacts of Lane-Changing Maneuvers on Traffic Flow

Laval, Jorge A.
Carlos Daganzo
2004

A multi-lane traffic flow model realistically captures the disruptive effects of lane- changing vehicles by recognizing their limited ability to accelerate. While they accelerate, these vehicles create voids in the traffic stream that affect its character. Bounded acceleration explains two features of freeway traffic streams: the capacity drop of freeway bottlenecks, and the quantitative relation between the discharge rate of moving bottlenecks and bottleneck speed. The model com- bines a multilane kinematic wave module for the traffic stream, with a detailed constrained-motion model to...