Links Resources and References Related to Location Efficiency and

Transportation Credit Mortgages

 

Spring 2007 intransition magazine

 

Links

 

Center for Neighborhood Technology http://www.cnt.org/

Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/vtc/

Location Efficient Mortgage http://www.locationefficiency.com/

 

Related Articles

 

Transportation + Housing: Moving the Region Towards Greater Affordability

Center for Neighborhood Technology

http://www.cnt.org/ht/

 

The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice

Brookings Institute

http://www.brookings.edu/metro/umi/20060127_affindex.pdf

 

A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families

Barbara J. Lipman, Center for Housing Policy

http://www.cnt.org/repository/heavy_load_10_06.pdf [swap link for CHP]

 

Housing & Transportation Cost Trade-offs and Burdens of Working Households in 28 Metros

Peter M. Haas, Carrie Makarewicz, Albert Benedict , Center for Neighborhood Technology; Thomas W. Sanchez, Casey J. Dawkins, Virginia Tech

http://www.cnt.org/repository/H-T-Tradeoffs-for-Working-Families-n-28-Metros-FULL.pdf

 

Additional Resources

 

Natural Resources Defense Council: Guide to Location-Efficient Mortgages

http://www.nrdc.org/cities/smartGrowth/qlem.asp

 

Victoria Transport Policy Institute: Location-Efficient Development and Mortgages.

http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm22.htm

 

Transportation and Land Use Coalition: Transportation-Efficient Mortgages

http://www.transcoalition.org/ia/tranmort/06.html#body

 

Surface Transportation Policy Partnership: Investments—Expensive Cars and Inconvenient Homes

http://www.transact.org/report.asp?id=44

Tomkins County, NY: Location-Efficient and Energy-Efficient Mortgages

http://www.co.tompkins.ny.us/planning/vct/tool/locationenergyefficient.html

 

Surface Transportation Policy Project— California: The Location-Efficient Mortgage

http://www.transact.org/ca/smart_growth6.htm

 

Selected References

Blackman, Allen, and Alan J. Krupnick. 2001. Location-efficient mortgages: Is the rationale sound? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20 (4):633-649.

Boarnet, Marlon G., and Randall Crane. 2001. Travel by design: The influence of urban form on travel. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bollier, David. 1998. How smart growth can stop sprawl. Washington DC: Essential Books.

Chatman, Daniel G. 2005. How the built environment influences non-work travel: Theoretical and empirical essays. Dissertation, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles.

———. 2006. Transit-oriented development and travel: A study of California cities. Sacramento: California Department of Transportation.

Crepeau, Richard, and Charles Lave. 1996. Travel by carless households: The Access almanac. Access (9):29-31.

Danielsen, K. A., Robert E. Lang, and William Fulton. 1999. Retracting suburbia: Smart growth and the future of housing. Housing Policy Debate 10 (3):513-540.

Fischel, William A. 1985. The economics of zoning laws: A property rights approach to American land use controls. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Giuliano, Genevieve. 2003. Travel, location and race/ethnicity. Transportation Research A 37 (4):351-372.

Giuliano, Genevieve, and Dhirai Narayan. 2003. Another look at travel patterns and urban form: The US and Great Britain. Urban Studies 40 (11):2295-2312.

Glaeser, Edward L., and Joseph Gyourko. 2002. The impact of zoning on housing affordability. Cambridge MA: Harvard Institute of Economic Research.

Holtzclaw, John Watson. 1991. Using residential patterns and transit to decrease auto dependence and costs. San Francisco: Natural Resources Defense Council.

Holtzclaw, John Watson, Robert Clear, Hank Dittmar, David Goldstein, and Peter Haas. 2002. Location efficiency: Neighborhood and socioeconomic characteristics determine auto ownership and use - Studies in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Transportation Planning and Technology 25 (1):1-27.

Institute for Location Efficiency. 2006. Now it's easier to own your own home! Introducing the Location Efficient Mortgage 2002 [cited August 1 2006]. Available from http://www.locationefficiency.com/publications/lem-brochure.pdf.

Krizek, Kevin J. 2003. Transit supportive home loans: Theory, application, and prospects for smart growth. Housing Policy Debate 14 (4):657-677.

Levine, J., A. Inam, and G. W. Torng. 2005. A choice-based rationale for land use and transportation alternatives - Evidence from Boston and Atlanta. Journal of Planning Education and Research 24 (3):317-330.

Listokin, David, Elvin K. Wyly, Brian Schmitt, and Ioan Voicu. 2002. The potential and limitations of mortgage innovation in fostering homeownership in the United States. Washington, DC: Fannie Mae Foundation.

Newman, Kathe, and Elvin K. Wyly. 2004. Geographies of mortgage market segmentation: The case of Essex County, New Jersey. Housing Studies 19 (1):53-83.

Pucher, John R., Tim Evans, and Jeff Wegner. 1998. Socio-economics and urban travel: Evidence from the 1995 NPTS. Transportation Quarterly 52 (3):15-33.

Pucher, John R., and John L. Renne. 2003. Socioeconomics of urban travel: Evidence from the 2001 NHTS. Transportation Quarterly 57 (3):49-77.

Schimek, Paul. 1996. Household motor vehicle ownership and use: How much does residential density matter? Transportation Research Record 1552:120-125.

Shoup, Donald C. 2005. The high cost of free parking. Chicago: Planners Press.