type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Personal travel time in U.S. urban areas has been stable, clashing with the assertion that urban sprawl greatly lengthens travel. Average commute time rises by 7.7 percent with each cross-sectional doubling of Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) jobs. Using the RELU-TRAN...</p>

RELU is a dynamic general equilibrium model of a metropolitan economy and its land use, derived by unifying in a theoretically valid way, models developed by one of the authors [Anas (1982), Anas-Arnott (1991, 1997), Anas-Kim (1996), Anas-Xu (1999)]. RELU equilibrates floor space, land and labor...