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Calimente, John - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 5 (2012) 1, pp. 19-32

Tokyo’s railway station areas are models of transit-oriented design. To differentiate them from transit-oriented developments (TOD), the term rail integrated community (RIC) has been created to describe these high density, safe, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly developments around railway...

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Financing transportation with land value taxes: Effects on development intensity

Levinson, David Matthew; Junge, Jason - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 5 (2012) 1, pp. 49-63

A significant portion of local transportation funding comes from the property tax. The tax is conventionally assessed on both land and buildings, but transportation increases only the value of the land. A more direct, efficient way to fund transportation projects is to tax land at a higher rate...

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Generating French virtual commuting networks at the municipality level

Lenormand, Maxime; Huet, Sylvie; Gargiulo, Floriana - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 7 (2014) 1, pp. 43-55

We aim to generate virtual commuting networks in the rural regions of France in order to study the dynamics of their municipalities. Since it will be necessary to model small commuting ﬂows between municipalities with a few hundred or thousand inhabitants, we have opted for the stochastic...

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Does First Last? The Existence and Extent of First Mover Advantages on Spatial Networks

Levinson, David Matthew; Xie, Feng - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 4 (2011) 2, pp. 47-69

transport networks. The literature on first mover advantages identifies a number of sources that explain their existence … surface transport networks, which enables first mover advantage to be analyzed in a controlled environment. Simulation … transport network and become increasingly prominent as the network expands. In addition, the analysis discloses that the extent …

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The Coevolution of Transport and Land Use: An Introduction to the Special Issue and an Outline of a Research Agenda

Levinson, David Matthew - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 4 (2011) 2, pp. 1-3

Volume 4, Issue 2 of the Journal of Transport and Land Use focuses on coevolution: how transport drives changes in land … better understand the coevolution of transport and land use. …

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Assessing the impacts of Light Rail Transit on urban land in Manila

Pacheco-Raguz, Javier F. - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 3 (2010) 1, pp. 113-138

This paper presents an assessment of impacts of Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT1) in terms of accessibility and distance as they relate to variables such as land values, land uses, and population densities in Manila, Philippines. Using correlations and regressions, these variables are analyzed...

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The implications of and institutional barriers to compact land development for transportation: Evidence from Bejing

Zhao, Pengjun - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 6 (2013) 3, pp. 29-42

the primary institutional barriers to sustainable transport. Examining the case of Beijing, this paper aims to contribute … this transition has tended to increase car usage and thus worsen the emission of pollutants by transport in Beijing when …-use policies to control local sprawl and promote sustainable transport. …

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A brief introduction to London’s underground railways and land use

Darroch, Nathan - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 7 (2014) 1, pp. 105-116

The most common perception of London’s underground railways and land use is that the railway stimulated suburban development and growth of the city. However, the interface between the railway, private property interests, and urban and suburban development is much more complicated than this....

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The influence of urban form on car travel following residential relocation: a current and retrospective study in Scottish urban areas

Woods, Lee; Ferguson, Neil S. - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 7 (2014) 1, pp. 95-104

Spatial planning and policy continues to be used as a tool to bring about changes in travel behavior. Policy suggests that by creating particular urban forms, demand for travel by car can be reduced. This paper uses data collected in 2006 from 280 households in Glasgow and Edinburgh to analyze...

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A multi-agent planning support system for assessing the role of transportation and environmental objectives in urban planning

Katoshevski-Cavari, Katoshevski-Cavari , Rachel; … - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 7 (2014) 1, pp. 29-42

This paper analyzes 12 city plans that were developed based on environmental-sustainability indicators using a multi-agent model. The plans are based on three city forms and four types of city scenarios, each representing a different planning concept. The environmental indicators concern...

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