The Role of Street Network Pattern in Daily VMT: A Behavioral Analysis of a National Road User Study Participants

摘要

This paper investigates how street network pattern influences daily VMT at an individual level based on the data from a national road user study, which recruited over 2,800 participants over a two-year period. The street network pattern within a 0.5-mi radius of each participant's residence is measured in three dimensions using ArcGIS: connectivity, compactness and configuration. The relationship between daily VMT, which is grouped into work-related and nonwork-related, and quantified street network pattern is captured with descriptive statistic techniques. In addition, the effect of each street network pattern dimension on daily driving is estimated by using multilevel mixed effect modeling when some demographic and socio-economic factors such as income, age, gender and education level are controlled.