Interrelationships of Job-housing Relocations and Commuting Patterns - Commuting Time Stability: A Test of Co-location Hypothesis

During the past few decades, the populations of many U.S. and European cities have shown the same residence and workplace mobility patterns: Annually, approximately 10 percent of the population changed residences and approximately 20 percent of employed workers changed workplaces within the same metropolitan area. Even though the Seattle metropolitan region experienced a substantial amount of residential and workplace mobility and a boom in employment and population in the 1990s, the morning commute time and distance was roughly constant. To explain this situation, researchers have proposed a co-location hypothesis, that is, residents and workers will change their residence or workplace or both adapt to worsening congestion.This research attempted to shed light on the mechanism of the co-location hypothesis and commute mode adjustment using the Puget Sound Transportation Panel data consisting of seven waves of 2 consecutive years between 1989 and 1997 conducted by the Puget Sound Regional Council. This study attempted to understand commuting patterns by residential and workplace changers.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Chansung Kim
• Edition: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9783639011173
• ISBN: 978-3-639-01117-3
• Pages: 144
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 9 mm
• Poids: 233 g
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général