Patricia L. Mokhtarian

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of land use and attitudinal characteristics on travel behavior for five diverse San Francisco Bay Area neighborhoods were examined, and the finding that attitudes are more strongly associated with travel than are land use characteristics suggests that land use policies promoting higher densities and mixtures may not alter travel demand materially unless residents' attitudes are also changed.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of land use and attitudinal characteristics on travel behavior for five diverse San Francisco Bay Area neighborhoods were examined, and the finding that attitudes are more strongly associated with travel than are land use characteristics suggests that land use policies promoting higher densities and mixtures may not alter travel demand materially unless residents' attitudes are also changed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of 38 empirical studies on the extent to which the observed patterns of travel behavior can be attributed to the residential built environment (BE) itself, as opposed to attitude-induced residential self-selection.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and travel behavior while taking into account the role of travel preferences and neighborhood preferences in explaining this relationship, and found that differences in travel behavior between suburban and traditional neighborhoods are largely explained by attitudes.

TL;DR: This paper reviews and evaluates alternative approaches to attitudinal self-selection in suburban residents, identifying some advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and noting the difficulties in actually quantifying the absolute and/or relative extent of the true influence of the built environment on travel behavior.