Abstract

Assessing Impacts of Land Use Patterns on Non-Motorized Trips
Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Authors: Dohyung Kim

Non-motorized transportation modes have great potential to be a sustainable transportation mode replacing automobile. However, automobile oriented land-use patterns make it difficult for pedestrians and bicyclists to trip to their destinations. Although many researchers investigate land-use factors that attract non-motorized trips, the research is conducted for limited geographical extents because of the difficulty of non-motorized trip data collection. However, GIS makes it possible to collect and analyze land-use patterns and non-motorized trip data covering a large geographical area.
This paper presents a systemic GIS approach that analyzes the land-use characteristics that attract non-motorized trips in Los Angeles County. This paper primarily quantifies the cluster of land-use characteristics, and spatially correlates it with the destinations of non-motorized trips identified from 2009 National Household Travel Survey. Based on the spatial correlation, this paper develops a regression model providing statistical evidences of spatial correlation between the land-use factors and non-motorized trips.