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Growth Management and Sustainable Transport: Do Growth Management Policies Promote Transit Use?

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Advocates of sustainable development typically consider mass transit to be more sustainable than their automobile-dependent alternatives and desire policies that can achieve higher use of urban mass transit. In this paper, we hypothesize that statelevel growth management policies should increase transit use in two ways: first, by limiting core abandonment while accommodating potential increases in population, reducing development elsewhere; and second, by directing new development where transit systems are already well established. We tested this by analyzing 95 metropolitan areas across the United States, 16 with growth-management policies and 79 without. We found that the first set showed a statistically significant improvement in the percentage transit users. The empirical analysis on causality, however, suggests that the improvement is more likely due to an increase in occupancy rates within core areas, by limiting abandonment, rather than in shifting the location of new development to transit areas.

Source: Journal of Public Transportation

DOI: 10.5038/2375-0901.12.4.2

Authors: Brian Deal, Jae Kim, Arnab Chakraborty

Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois System, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Language: English

Topic: Urban Transport and Accessibility

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1995222121

FWCI: 3.25

Cites: 27

Cited by: 13

Related to: 10