AbstractNew Developments in Southern California and TOD—Geographically Weighted RegressionTrack: Transportation Author Since California Senate Bill 375 became law effective January 2009, the transit oriented development (TOD) has become the major land use and development patterns in the Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) to reduce green house gas emissions. The TOD strategy will not be successful if it is only driven by planning. Market forces are also very important to encourage development around transit stations. This study examines whether land developments and housing constructions during the 2000s in the SCAG region (the six-county: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura) tended to be around transit areas. We examine new land developments from 2000 to 2008 at parcel level and analyze the relationship between those developments and transit networks in the region. For the method, we use the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) a local spatial statistical technique for exploring spatial non-stationarity; the spatial non-stationarity is defined as the measurement of relationships among variables, and how they differ from location to location. Cheol-Ho Lee Southern California Association of Governments 818 W. 7th Street, 12th Floor Los Angeles, California 90017 United States Phone: 213-236-1848 Fax: 213-236-1962 E-mail: leec@scag.ca.gov Frank Wen Southern California Association of Governments 818 W. 7th Street, 12th Floor Los Angeles, California 90017 United States Phone: 213-236-1854 E-mail: WEN@scag.ca.gov Simon Choi Southern California Association of Governments 818 W. 7th Street, 12th Floor Los Angeles, California 90017 United States Phone: 213-236-1849 E-mail: CHOI@scag.ca.gov |