Transportation/Land-Use Relationship: Public Transit's Impact on Land Use

Abstract

Developing a richer understanding of the transportation/land-use relationship remains critical to the transportation and land-use planning professions. This paper reflects on this relationship, with particular emphasis on the impacts of public transit on land use. It challenges some conventional assumptions and perceptions by looking more closely at direct and indirect relationships and exploring a systematic way of characterizing the relationships between transportation investments and subsequent land-use responses.