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To identify the spatial and social factors driving changes in commuting distance and duration over two decades.

November 1, 2003The Professional Geographer

Analyzing Changes in Urban Form and Commuting Time

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MVMarie‐Hélène VandersmissenUniversité Laval PVPaul VilleneuveCarleton University MTMarius ThériaultUniversité Laval

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Disaggregate survey modeling demonstrates that dispersed urban form increases commuting duration in metropolitan workers, suggesting decentralized job growth lengthens travel in medium-sized cities.

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To identify the spatial and social factors driving changes in commuting distance and duration over two decades.
Analyzed repeated cross-sectional travel survey samples collected between 1977 and 1996 in Québec City, Canada.
Developed a disaggregate model of trip duration incorporating categorical variables to isolate change effects from baseline urban form level effects while controlling for travel mode and social characteristics.
Commuting distances increased for both male and female workers between 1977 and 1996, whereas durations increased for males and declined for females.
Transitioning from a monocentric structure to a dispersed urban form directly increased commuting time after controlling for transit mode and demographic factors, contradicting the trip-duration stability reported in larger metropolitan areas.

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Vandersmissen et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a83f41f448cdc0007ee8868 https://doi.org/10.1111/0033-0124.5504004

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Disaggregate survey modeling demonstrates that dispersed urban form increases commuting duration in metropolitan workers, suggesting decentralized job growth lengthens travel in medium-sized cities.

Analyzing Changes in Urban Form and Commuting Time

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Analyzing Changes in Urban Form and Commuting Time

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