Basic to several key issues in current urban economic theory and public policy is a presumption that local imbalances between employment and residential sites strongly influence people's commuting patterns. We examine this presumption by finding the commuting pattern for the Los Angeles region...

Jobs-housing balance has become a major planning and public policy issue. Despite its popularity and apparent acceptance among public policy makers as a solution for traffic congestion and air pollution problems, there is little consensus on what jobs-housing balance means and little evidence...

Trip reduction policies are increasingly utilized in U.S. metropolitan areas to address congestion and air quality problems. These policies typically focus on the journey to work and are aimed at reducing the amount of drive-alone commuting by providing transit and ride-sharing incentives....

American attitudes toward transportation planning have undergone significant change. For three decades after World War II, public policy emphasized construction of new highway and transit facilities to remove the backlog of needs resulting from the combined effects of depression, a war economy,...

Theories of relationships between land use and transportation, and the empirical research conducted to test these relationships are reviewed. Recent empirical research seldom supports theoretical expectations. These results are explained by the changes in urban structure that have occurred over...

Americans often look to Southern California as a place where lifestyle trends are born. Now, ironically, the land that has long glorified the car culture is galvanizing commuting behavior and encouraging abstinence from the once-respectable custom of solo driving. The catalyst for this...

This paper summarizes the literature on the effectiveness of employee ridesharing programs. It provides the conceptual and empirical basis for our evaluation of AQMD's mandatory ridesharing ordinance, Regulation XV. We review the literature on the following topics: 1) employee ridesharing...

Regulation XV of the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern California requires all work sites at which there are 100 or more employees to implement a ridesharing program by which the organization's "average vehicle ridership" is intended to be increased to a specified target...

Traffic congestion is a disruptive fact of urban life. It inflicts delays and frustrations in virtually all major cities in the world, new or old, rich or poor. Although many countermeasures have been tried, it is hard to name a city in which there is much satisfaction with the existing state of...