Attitudes toward Travel and Land Use and Choice of Residential Neighborhood Type: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area
Schwanen, Tim and Patricia L. Mokhtarian (2007) Attitudes toward Travel and Land Use and Choice of Residential Neighborhood Type: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area. Housing Policy Debate 18 (1), 171 - 207
Two issues have recently attracted increasing attention in the literature on New Urbanist-type, higherâ€density, mixedâ€use neighborhoods: whether there is a direct causal link between the characteristics of the built environment and personal travel behavior and what kind of people want to live in New Urbanist developments. We apply logit modeling to data from the San Francisco Bay Area to analyze how predispositions toward travel and land use affect the choice of residential neighborhood type. We control for sociodemographics, personality/lifestyle, and auto availability.