No Longer Seat-Less in Seattle: The Role of Coordinated Transportation and Land Use Planning in Sustaining Transit Ridership through the Pandemic Recovery Period-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

No Longer Seat-Less in Seattle: The Role of Coordinated Transportation and Land Use Planning in Sustaining Transit Ridership through the Pandemic Recovery Period

Published:2024-09-05 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0739-456X
Container-title:Journal of Planning Education and Research
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Planning Education and Research

Author:

Parker Madeleine E. G.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Abstract

Transit ridership had been decreasing in major cities across the United States prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, with Seattle as a notable exception. I examine the relationship between travel behavior and Seattle’s land use planning program in conjunction with transit improvements. I use econometric methods to analyze multiple waves of the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) Household Travel Survey from 2014 to 2021. Living in one of Seattle’s Urban Villages is significantly associated with a higher likelihood of taking transit. This relationship holds during the pandemic time period and when controlling for self-selection.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X241269026

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