Excess or wasteful commuting in a selection of British cities

Frost, Martin; Linneker, Brian; Spence, Nigel

doi:10.1016/s0965-8564(98)00016-0

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“…They have been compared with observed commuting patterns to determine the 'efficiency' of trip making whereby any deviation from the costminimising solution is considered to be excessive (Murphy, 2009). Excess commuting is a term which refers to the empirical difference between the average minimum commute necessitated by the existing distribution of jobs and housing in urban areas and the observed commute (White, 1988;Frost et al, 1998;Horner, 2002;Loo and Chow, 2010;Murphy and Killen, 2011). The greater the deviation between observed commuting patterns and the minimum required by the morphology of jobs-housing arrangements, the more 'excessive' the observed commuting patterns are in urban areas.…”

Section: Urban Spatial Location Advantage: the Dual Of The Transportamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other costs can be used including Euclidean distance and travel time which have been used in previous studies (see Horner, 2002;Merriman et al 1995); and also some generalised cost measure is possible although data availability is a major issue in this case. Intra-zonal travel distances were estimated by assuming that each zonal unit is approximately circular in shape (see Frost et al, 1998). In a similar manner to other studies, this study excluded those trips originating and destined for locations outside the study boundary (see Frost et al, 1998;Horner, 2002;Murphy, 2009).…”

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“…Intra-zonal travel distances were estimated by assuming that each zonal unit is approximately circular in shape (see Frost et al, 1998). In a similar manner to other studies, this study excluded those trips originating and destined for locations outside the study boundary (see Frost et al, 1998;Horner, 2002;Murphy, 2009). …”

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“…Therefore, the situation could be greatly improved by further diversifying the land functions, improving the jobs-housing balance and densifying public transport routes and networks. These indices were developed mainly as descriptive tools to compare urban areas in terms of commuting efficiency (Frost et al (1998) [36]; Horner (2002) [32]; Ma and Banister (2006) [37]), give evidence that how urban form and commuting behavior in a city are changing over time or where an urban area stands with respect to other cities.…”

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Impact of Megacity Jobs-Housing Spatial Mismatch on Commuting Behaviors: A Case Study on Central Districts of Shanghai, China

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2016

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This study utilized the mobile signaling data to conduct the impact analysis of jobs-housing spatial mismatch on commuting behavior, with eight typical employment centers of three categories selected as the research subjects. Based on the analysis of the characteristics and indictors including commuting distance, accessibilities from cumulative opportunity model etc., this study demonstrates that (a) cumulative percentage of short commuting distance (e.g., less than 3 km) reflects the jobs-housing spatial match between employment centers and their peripheral areas; and (b) combining the indicators of employed population and area covered within a certain space-time range among indictors of accessibility, it is possible to identify the degree of jobs-housing balance and efficiency of the transport system. According to the evaluation radar maps, the authors believe that employment centers could be divided into three categories: those with a gathering power, those with improvable functions, and those with local adjustment potentials. Possible measures including controlling the gathering power of the city centers, improving the function mix and transport facilities, and optimizing the overall local environment, etc. could be made to achieve jobs-housing balance in central districts and their peripheral areas as a whole. Besides, the study, proceeding from the perspective of commuters, suggests that optimization of jobs-housing distribution along banded corridors would be more efficient than those within the traditional region so as to reduce commuting traffic load.

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“…The approach assumes that each zone has a circular shape such that the average intrazonal travel distance can be estimated backwards 13 from the known zonal area. When assuming an equal distribution of trips across zones, this intrazonal travel distance equals the radius of a zone (Frost, et al, 1998;Horner, 2002):…”

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Spatial variation in the potential for social interaction: A case study in Flanders (Belgium)

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Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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Abstract.Empirical evidence is mounting that good urban design fosters the formation of social fabric.Existing evidence is however limited in at least two respects. First, empirical studies have focused largely on social interactions taking place within the residential neighborhood, while leaving social encounters near the workplace unconsidered. Second, while various studies have examined the impact of the built environment on realized social behavior, there is as yet no empirical research on the potential for having social contact. A deeper understanding of the geography of social interaction potential is nonetheless important, for it is individuals' social opportunities rather than their preferences and actual choices that are most directly amenable to policy intervention. This paper seeks to address both issues in an empirical case study in Flanders and Brussels (Belgium). An exploratory spatial analysis is conducted to uncover spatial trends in the potential for social interaction in order to better understand the role of urban spatial structure in the production of social interaction potential.

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Excess or wasteful commuting in a selection of British cities

Cited by 78 publications

References 9 publications

Urban spatial location advantage: The dual of the transportation problem and its implications for land-use and transport planning

Urban spatial location advantage: The dual of the transportation problem and its implications for land-use and transport planning

Impact of Megacity Jobs-Housing Spatial Mismatch on Commuting Behaviors: A Case Study on Central Districts of Shanghai, China

Spatial variation in the potential for social interaction: A case study in Flanders (Belgium)

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