Land Use and Vehicle Miles of Travel in the Climate Change Debate: Getting Smarter Than Your Average Bear
Proceedings of the 2010 Land Policy Conference, 2011
By: Douglas Houston, Gavin Ferguson, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Marlon Boarnet
https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/2038_1360_LP2010-ch07-Land-Use-and-Vehicle-Miles-of-Travel-in-the-Climate-Change-Debate_0.pdf
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This article concludes that employment accessibility would be a more effective land-use policy for reducing VMT than neighborhood population density, especially in the Los Angeles area. It calls for land-use policy change at the regional scale, rather than the neighborhood scale, in order to make a meaningful impact on climate change.