Abstract
Land use mix, namely the extent to which different uses of land (e.g. residential, commercial) are integrated in neighbourhoods or other geographical areas, is often associated with various aspects of travel behaviour. Studies measure the qualitative concept of land use mixing in numerous ways. Despite a significant interest on the effect of land use mix on travel, few studies have attempted to understand how the choice of measure can affect our understanding of the land use mix-travel behaviour link. In particular, an empirical model of travel demand that tests the wide range of measures used in past studies is, to our knowledge, absent in the literature. In the paper presented in this seminar, we estimate a model for public transport trip frequency in London, in which we apply a number of distinct land use mix measures. We aim to investigate how the measure used can affect model results and draw some conclusions regarding the suitability of different metrics in the context of public transport demand.
About the Speaker
Niovi Karathodorou is a post-doctoral research associate with the Railway and Transport Strategy Centre, which is part of the Centre of Transport Studies at Imperial College London. She obtained her PhD from Imperial College London in 2012 and her first degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 2003. The topic of her PhD thesis related to the effect of the built environment on travel behaviour. She is currently working on a project on metro energy efficiency.