Toward Sustainable Transport: Conventional and Disruptive Approaches in the U.S. Context

Shay, Elizabeth; Khattak, Asad J.

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“…Almost every urban campus in the United States faces serious effects from automobile traffic and parking shortages. At the same time, automobile use has major effects on the local and global environment (1). Travel demand management strategy is used by many universities to alleviate the problems of limited on-campus parking, parking restrictions from surrounding neighborhoods, and financial constraints (2)(3)(4).…”

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What can be Learned from Analyzing University Student Travel Demand?

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Khattak

Son

2012

Transportation Research Record

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To improve regional travel demand models, transportation engineers and planners desire appropriate representation of subpopulations. University students are a relatively neglected group of the population, often missed in regional behavioral surveys and not well represented in travel demand models. Many students attending a university reside, take classes, work, and perform other activities in the university environment, which is often mixed use, alternative mode friendly, higher density, and livable. The purpose of this paper is to understand the travel behavior of university students and to model associations with their attributes that include personal characteristics, residential location (residing on campus or off campus), and academic status. The data used in this study are from a unique Internet-based survey (N = 1,468) of students at Old Dominion University in Virginia. This effort was conducted in 2010 and was part of the Virginia University Student Travel Survey (USTS) supplement. With USTS data combined with spatial data, rigorous statistical models of automobile and walk–bicycle trip rates are estimated to explore associated factors. Results showed that students living on campus or near campus were significantly more likely to walk and bicycle and less likely to drive automobiles and indicated the value of living in a campus environment with greater accessibility to activities and a walk-and bicycle-friendly network. The behavioral models provide helpful information that can be used to represent better the behavior of university students in regional travel demand models and to improve strategic transportation planning.

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2012

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“…Our research and teaching experience on sustainable transportation planning has led us to believe in the need to strengthen and increase the impact of non-motorized modes of transportation in order to create safer and more livable cities, with lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and therefore less propensity to contribute to global climate change (Shay and Khattak, 2010;Balsas, 2019). Market economics aided by community advocacy and public involvement, responsible technological advances, and community-oriented development ought to help accomplish public policy goals that result in safer transportation infrastructure (e.g., road redesigns, bridges and tunnels, bicycle trails and lanes) also in poor communities in the United States and elsewhere.…”

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Where Does Technology Fit in the Geospatial Design and Planning Professions?

Balsas

2019

Proceedings of the International Conferences ICT, Society, and Human Beings 2019; Connected Smart Cities 2019; And Web Based Co

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The societal transformations facilitated in part by geospatial design technological advances have brought new challenges to territorial planning. This paper analyzes the evolution of geospatial design and planning education in the United States by emphasizing the criticality of sustainable transportation planning in facilitating the partial resolution of some of the land usetransportation problems commonly found in environmental justice communities. The paper is in six parts. Part one is a review of geospatial design and planning education in the United States. Part two progresses from education to desired planning skills and a smart cities' framework. Part three is an overview of the dilemmas found in environmental justice communities. Part four explains why technology based on vehicles alone will not create more sustainable transportation. Part five is the case study of an environmental justice community in Albany, New York. Finally, part six makes some concluding remarks.

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Transit Systems and the Quality of Life

Habib

2023

Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

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Toward Sustainable Transport: Conventional and Disruptive Approaches in the U.S. Context

Cited by 18 publications

References 55 publications

What can be Learned from Analyzing University Student Travel Demand?

What can be Learned from Analyzing University Student Travel Demand?

Where Does Technology Fit in the Geospatial Design and Planning Professions?

Transit Systems and the Quality of Life

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