Sustainable and Affordable Housing Near Rail Transit: Refining and Expanding a Scenario Planning Toll

Affordable housing and climate change have become urgent issues in cities across the United States. Evidence from previous research in Los Angeles showed that promoting transit-oriented development (TOD) to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction could be at odds with providing access to affordable housing near transit, because higher income households tend to reduce driving the most when living near transit. Results from that study show how both goals can be met through development that favors density over inclusionary zoning. These results, however, had limited implications due to three factors: household vehicle miles traveled (VMT) was a proxy for GHG emissions, the results cannot be generalized beyond Los Angeles, and residential self-selection could hamper the projects estimates of household VMT. This research project will address all three of these limitations through improvements to the projects existing model.

• Record URL:
  https://www.metrans.org/research/sustainable-and-affordable-housing-near-rail-transit-refining-and-expanding-scenario

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $100,000
• Contract Numbers:

  65A0533

• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Brinkerhoff, Cort

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research

  University of Southern California
  650 Childs Way, RGL 107
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089-0626
• Principal Investigators:

  Bostic, Raphael

• Start Date: 20170101
• Expected Completion Date: 20171231
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Greenhouse gases; Pollutants; Residential location; Transit centers; Transit oriented development; Vehicle miles of travel
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Policy; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01618766
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research
• Contract Numbers: 65A0533
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Dec 12 2016 9:39AM