The Relationships between Urban Form and Travel Patterns. An International Review and Evaluation

By Dominic Stead, S. Marshall. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2001

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There is a growing body of research concerned with the relationship between urban form and travel patterns. Studies originate from a diversity of sources, and encompass a variety of geographic scales and locations. To add to this diversity, many different characteristics of urban form to have been examined in these studies, and travel patterns have been measured in a number of different ways. This paper brings together in a systematic way the results of many recent studies on urban form and travel patterns over the last 20 years. As well as this systematic approach, other key aspects of this review paper include the identification of where research has been concentrated (and where there are gaps in research), and in the critique of the studies, which includes issues of data accuracy, reliability and quality, the applicability of research methods and data interpretation. The critique focuses in some detail on the interaction of socio-economic factors with urban form and travel patterns.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Transportation

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Compactness versus Sprawl (2015, background): “…(Badoe and Miller 2000; Cao, Mokhtarian, and Handy 2009; Cervero 2003; Crane 2000; Ewing and Cervero 2001; Handy 2005; Heath et al. 2006; McMillan 2005, 2007; Pont et al. 2009; Saelens, Sallis, and Frank 2003; Stead and Marshall 2001) and two meta-analyses (Leck 2006; Ewing and Cervero 2010).”
Investigating relationships between road freight transport, facility location, logistics management and urban form (2012, background): “There has been much discussion since the mid-1980s about the relationship between transport and urban form (Banister, 2005; Breheny, 2001; ECOTEC, 1993; Newman and Kenworthy, 1988; Stead and Marshall, 2001; Taylor and Sloman, 2008).”
Accessibility and Transit-Oriented Development in European metropolitan areas (2015, neutral): “A significant body of research has been produced on the impact of the urban form on travel behaviour, in terms of travel distance, journey frequency, modal split, travel time and transport energy consumption (Boarnet, 2011; Cervero and Kockelman, 1997; Echenique et al., 2012; Ewing and Cervero, 2010”
Interrelations between travel mode choice and trip distance: trends in Germany 1976-2002 (2010, background): “Time and again, transport researchers have highlighted a number of key attributes of the built environment likely to affect travel behaviour: density, land-use, and distance to the nearest centre (see overviews in Stead and Marshall, 2001; Cervero, 2006).”
Revealing daily travel patterns and city structure with taxi trip data (2013, background): “Additionally, ‘hubs’ in urban area associate with office buildings and commercial areas more, whereas residential land use is more common in suburban ’hubs’.”
Determinants of urban mobility in India: Lessons for promoting sustainable and inclusive urban transportation in developing countries (2016, background): “In addition, literature has documented the impact of socioeconomic and cultural variables on the patterns of urban mobility (Chapman, 2007; Schwanen, Dieleman, & Dijst, 2001; Stead & Marshall, 2001).”
Travel and the Built Environment (2010, neutral): “…Cervero, 2003; Crane, 2000; Ewing & Cervero, 2001; Handy, 2004; Heath, Brownson, Kruger, Miles, Powell, Ramsey, & the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, 2006; McMillan, 2005, 2007; Pont, Ziviani, Wadley, Bennet, & Bennet, 2009; Saelens, Sallis, & Frank, 2003; Stead & Marshall, 2001).”
Social inequalities in travel behaviour: trip distances in the context of residential self-selection and lifestyles (2010, neutral): “Transport researchers have highlighted the importance of a number of key attributes of the built environment in this respect: density, landuse, distance to the nearest centre, and connectivity of transport networks (see overviews in Boarnet and Crane, 2001; Stead and Marshall, 2001; Cervero, 2006).”
Going soft: on how Subjective Variables Explain Modal Choices for Leisure Travel (2011, background): “Literature reviews (e.g., Crane, 2000; Ewing and Cervero, 2001; Handy, 2002, 2005; Stead and Marshall, 2001; Van Acker et al., 2010a) summarize various variables that are commonly used to explain this relationship.”
Are We Reaching Peak Travel? Trends in Passenger Transport in Eight Industrialized Countries (2011, background): “Parking constraints have also had an impact in the UK and dense US cities such as New York (Stead and Marshall, 2001; Weinberger et al., 2009).”
Urban Structure and Energy—A Review (2008, background): “Good reviews of the research on urban consolidation can be found in Badoe and Miller (2000) and Rodriguez et al. (2006), which focus on North America, and Stead and Marshall (2001), which has a Euro-American focus.”