Built Environment and Travel Behavior (Joel Franklin)

Preparation

• Read TransLink, 2010, Transit-Oriented Communities: A literature review on the relationship between the built environment and transit ridership
• Read Handy et al, 2006, Self-Selection in the Relationship between the Built Environment and Walking: Empirical Evidence from Northern California
• Think about the following questions:
  1. What behaviors, specifically, might be reasonably influenced by the built environment?
  2. What features of the built environment are most important?
  3. Whose responsibility might it be (if anyone's) to ensure that the built environment is designed for sustainable travel?
  4. On what time-scale could substantial changes in sustainable travel behaviors be achieved, by changing features of the built environment?

Class Materials

• Slides: Built Environment & Travel