To Drive or Not to Drive: A Study of the Influence of the Built Environment on Employee Travel Mode Choice in Chapel Hill

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Lewis, Jennifer
    • College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
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  • This project looked at the impact of the built environment at worksites on an employee's travel behavior using results from the Town of Chapel Hill's 2003 Employee Travel Behavior Survey and GIS analysis of the built environment at each employee's worksite. Using a data set generated from employee survey responses, a model was created to predict employee decision to drive to work as a function of employee personal characteristics and attributes of their worksite's built environment. Model results found that an employee is less likely to drive for their work commute the more bus stops per square mile at their worksite; conversely, an employee is more likely to drive for their work commute the more bus routes and neighborhoods per square mile near to their worksite. In addition, an employee is less likely to drive if they have had prior use of transit or their home is located near a transit stop. These results suggest that in order to decrease travel by car (and thereby reduce congestion), transit access should be increased at both an employee's worksite and their home. Results also suggest that an increase in density and greater mixes of land use might also decrease car travel to work.
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  • Song, Yan
Degree
  • Master of City and Regional Planning
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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  • 35 p.
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  • Open access
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  • December 10, 2010

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