Predictor variables examined included street, land use, and population characteristics, including commute behaviors.
This paper examines the potential effects of subway system expansion in Beijing on commuting behavior.
Used together, the indices can provide a reasonably good understanding of urban form and commuting behavior.
The structured questionnaire asked about the personal information, commuting behavior, employment, and residential experiences among the respondents.
City transformations are characterized by transportation innovations that allow individuals to access to speedy commuting modes for work activities and offer potential influences on commuting behavior.
All studied groups reported a more positive view of the scheme at follow-up, although this effect was more pronounced among those adapting their commuting behavior.
It usually finds in the USA cities that job housing spatial relationship has great impact on commuting behavior on metropolitan area [26]; some scholar even taken it as sin to long-distance commuting.
The rapidly changing job housing patterns in Chinese cities has drawn attention from both the transportation field and the urban planning field, due to the links between urban form and commuting behavior.
For example, Liu and Wang found that job-housing spatial mismatch began to form and impacted the everyday commuting behavior based on the questionnaire in Beijing, and job accessibility began to decrease [41].
While this graph exhibits actual commuting patterns, it does not tell us much about commuter behavior, all other things being equal.
