The Minimum Circuity Frontier and the Journey to Work

People travel between places of residence and work destinations via transportation net- works. The relation between selection of home and work locations has been heavily debated in the transportation planning literature. In this paper we use circuity, the ratio of network to Euclidean distance, to better understand the choice of residential location relative to work. This is done using two methods of dening origins and desti- nations in twenty metropolitan regions in the United States, with more detailed analysis of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota and Portland, Oregon. The rst method of selec- tion is based on actual choice of residence and work locations. The second is based on a randomly selected dataset of origins and destinations in the same regions, followed by a comparison between the two methods for these regions. The study shows circuity measured through randomly selected origins and destinations diers from circuity mea- sured from actual origins and destinations....

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: Regional Science and Urban Economics
• Authors: Levinson, D. and El-Geneidy A.
• Keywords: Circuity, Home-work Distance, Network Distance Euclidean Distance