Heroy, Samuel;
Loaiza, Isabella;
Pentland, Alex;
O'Clery, Neave;
(2022)
Are neighbourhood amenities associated with more walking and less driving? Yes, but predominantly for the wealthy.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
10.1177/23998083221141439.
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Abstract
Cities are home to a vast array of amenities, from local barbers to science museums and shopping malls. But these are unequally distributed across urban space. Using Google Places data combined with trip-based mobility data for Bogotá, Colombia, we shed light on the impact of neighbourhood amenities on urban mobility patterns. By deriving a new accessibility metric that explicitly takes into account spatial range, we find that a higher density of local amenities is associated with a higher likelihood of walking as well as shorter bus and car trips. Digging deeper, we use an effect modification framework to show that this relationship varies by socioeconomic status. Our main focus is walking and driving, finding that amenities within about a 1-km radius from home are robustly associated with a higher propensity to walk and shorter driving time only for the wealthiest group. These results suggest that wealthier groups may weigh the proximity of local amenities more heavily into travel decisions, perhaps based on differentiated time-money trade-offs. As cities globally aim to boost public transport and green travel, these findings enable us to better understand how commercial structure shapes urban mobility in highly income-segregated settings.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Are neighbourhood amenities associated with more walking and less driving? Yes, but predominantly for the wealthy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/23998083221141439 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221141439 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Environmental Studies, Geography, Regional & Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, Public Administration, Urban mobility, spatial inequity, transport and the built environment, travel behaviour, neighbourhood amenities, SAMPLE SELECTION BIAS, BUILT ENVIRONMENT, COMPACT DEVELOPMENT, MIXED-USE, TRAVEL, ACCESSIBILITY, BOGOTA, LOCATION, SYSTEM, CITY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10170178 |
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