title: Polycentrism, commuting, and residential location in the San Francisco Bay area.
abstract: "The San Francisco Bay Area has taken on a distinct polycentric metropolitan form, with three tiers of hierarchical employment centers encircling downtown San Francisco.... In this paper it is found that polycentric development is associated with differentials in suburban and urban commute trip times: commute trips made by employees of suburban centers are shorter in duration than commute trips made by their counterparts in larger and denser urban centers. Differentials were even greater, however, with respect to commuting modal splits.  Lower density, outlying employment centers averaged far higher rates of drive-alone automobile commuting and insignificant levels of transit commuting....The effects of housing availability and prices on the residential locational choices of those working both in urban and in suburban employment centers are also investigated...."
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cervero
authors.lastname: Wu K--
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001519:Behavior; D002140:California; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D004777:Environment; D005843:Geography; D006798:Housing; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011640:Public Policy; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013383:Suburban Population; D014186:Transportation; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Americas; Behavior; California; Commuting; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment; Employment Status; Environmental Policy; Geographic Factors; Housing; Macroeconomic Factors; North America; Northern America; Occupational Status; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Spatial Distribution; Suburbanization; United States; Urban Population; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization