TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Do high income households reduce driving more when living near rail transit?
JO  - Transportation research part D: transport and environment
A1  - Boarnet, Marlon G.
A1  - Bostic, Raphael W.
A1  - Rodnyansky, Seva
A1  - Burinskiy, Evgeny
A1  - Eisenlohr, Andrew
A1  - Jamme, Huê-Tâm
A1  - Santiago-Bartolomei, Raúl
SP  - e102244
EP  - e102244
VL  - 80
IS  - 
N2  - 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 "near-rail" versus "far from rail" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1361-9209
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102244
ID  - ref1
ER  -