ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the land use and site characteristics of SECs directly influence the commute choices of SEC employees and local traffic conditions. It presents a sub-analysis of how various work site characteristics are related to modal choices and time periods of travel of employees from the suburban community of Pleasanton, California. Land uses and design practices are thought to influence the modal choices of suburban workers as much as any one aspect of commuting. The chapter also presents the stepwise regression findings of those variables that do the best job at explaining drive-alone, ridesharing, and walking-cycling choices. The difficulty in studying the influence of jobs-housing levels on the incidence of walking and cycling trips is that the majority of SEC cases have no on-site units. Thus, the inclusion of the variable measuring on-site jobs indexed to on-site housing units would eliminate many cases from the analysis.
