The Philadelphia Story: Urban Renaissance and Shifting Travel Behavior in a Northeast Region
The objective of this project is to analyze how shifting residential location, demographics, economic activity, and preferences have contributed to changes in travel behavior in the Philadelphia Region over the past decade and a half. Cities and regions like Philadelphia have been at the heart of national increases in the use of transit, bicycles, and walking at the regional, megaregional, and national level. The metropolitan area has experienced enough demographic and spatial change in a short period of time and has enough demographic and travel variation to begin to unpack questions about the relative importance of economic conditions, demographic change, and people’s preferences in shifting travel patterns. A better understanding of the underlying factors that have contributed to the region’s changing travel patterns can help transportation planners make more informed decisions about where and how to invest in transportation infrastructure.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $40,250
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747135
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Sponsor Organizations:
Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590University Transportation Centers Program
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590University Transportation Centers Program
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Stearns, Amy
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Performing Organizations:
Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX United States 78712 -
Principal Investigators:
Guerra, Erick
Smart, Michael
Klein, Nicholas
- Start Date: 20170601
- Expected Completion Date: 20180930
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Demographics; Economic factors; Spatial analysis; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel patterns
- Geographic Terms: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01650969
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Nov 15 2017 9:24PM