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A common viewpoint held by many New-Urbanist and Neo-Traditional plan- ners is that characteristics of the built environment, such as population density, mixed land use settings and street configuration, exert a strong influence on travel behavior. The empirical evidence for this relation, however, as portrayed in many primary studies, is somewhat mixed. This paper offers an application of statistical meta-analysis in an attempt to settle the contradictory findings reported in the single studies. The findings reaffirm the role of residential density as the most important built environment element influencing travel choice. The findings also reinforce the land use mixing component of the built environment as being a strong predictor of travel behavior. The findings do not, however, support the most controversial claim of the New Urbanism regarding the role of street pattern configuration in influencing travel behavior.
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While problems of transportation could be considered to represent a specific environmental issue, and could thus have been included in the previous chapter, several reasons dictate a separate chapter for this topic. First, the field includes not only work on attitudes and behavior change strategies related to transportation use, but also research on the psychological impacts of travel and traffic, and other responses to transportation environments, considered as a particular type of setting. Thus the topic of transportation serves as a bridge between the preceding chapter and those to follow, which deal with specific environmental settings. Furthermore, the behavioral study of transportation has become identified as a special area of applied psychology; it encompasses the efforts of specialists in human factors, in economic behavior and decision theory, and others in related areas, and has thus become differentiated from both the study of environmental problems in general and from that of other specific environmental settings.
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