ABSTRACT

The demand for residential location, workplace location, travel mode, and housing tenure form an interrelated web of household decisions which determine much about the fabric of the urban environment. Public policies are affected by the decisions in a variety of different ways, and in turn, influence the household decisions. Models of residential and employment location have received extensive use in most large urban areas as an input into the transportation planning process. A more effective approach for analyzing public investments in highways, high occupancy vehicle lanes, rail systems, and bus systems, would be to integrate the land use and travel demand models with the land use models. The implications of households' choices of residence and workplace location, travel mode, and tenure for urban labor and housing markets are difficult to disentangle, and have been a source of controversy for some time.