@article{ref1,
title="Do high income households reduce driving more when living near rail transit?",
journal="Transportation research part D: transport and environment",
year="2020",
author="Boarnet, Marlon G. and Bostic, Raphael W. and Rodnyansky, Seva and Burinskiy, Evgeny and Eisenlohr, Andrew and Jamme, Huê-Tâm and Santiago-Bartolomei, Raúl",
volume="80",
number="",
pages="e102244-e102244",
abstract="Transportation planning today requires an understanding of how income and near-rail residence jointly influence household travel behavior. This article fills a gap in the literature by showing how vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and transit trips taken (TT) vary with income and rail transit access by neighborhood type. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that, when comparing households with similar incomes and examining how the &quot;near-rail&quot; versus &quot;far from rail&quot; VMT and TT gap varies by income, the cross-sectional reduction in nominal VMT and the increase in TT on a percentage basis is generally larger for higher-income households (>$50,000), and particularly so in neighborhoods dense with both jobs and population. These findings offer support for the notion that near-transit housing targeting higher-income households can have both sustainability and transit use benefits. We note, though, that equity considerations are a strong reason to include low-income housing near rail transit, and argue that policies focusing overly singly on either low-income or high-income housing near rail transit will not be as impactful as a robust focus on mixed-income housing developments in rail transit-oriented developments (TODs).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1361-9209",
doi="10.1016/j.trd.2020.102244",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102244"
}