Tradeoffs in residential location decisions: Transportation versus other factors

by Glen Weisbrod, Moshe Ben-Akiva and Steven Lerman

There has been a substantial discussion among planners in North America concerning the role that transportation can play in affecting the residential development patterns of urban areas. The purpose of this paper is to analyze consumers' tradeoffs in the decision to move and the selection among alternative residential locations. The paper focuses on the role of transportation level-of-service changes relative to various aspects of neighborhood quality, including crime, taxes, school quality, and demographic factors. This study is based on an analysis of the actual moving decisions and residential choices of individual households. The empirical results suggest that households make significant tradeoffs between transportation services and other public service factors in evaluating potential residences, but that the role of both in determining where people choose to live is small compared with socioeconomic and demographic factors. This suggests that the potential of most available public policies for altering residential location demand may be limited, and that the coordination of policies to achieve desired changes in residential patterns may prove useful.

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