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Researchers have long argued that achieving a rough balance between the number of jobs and housing units in a local area can improve transportation performance. Given the complexity of factors shaping commute patterns, however, evidence of a relationship between jobs-housing balance and travel patterns has been less robuts. recent advances in data availability have enabled a more sophisticated examination of the fit between jobs and housing in local areas, not just the balance. In this talk, Dr. Karner will describe the development of a low-wage jobs/affordable housing fit metric using publicly available data sources and its application to the study of commute distances across all census tracks in California. While there are some limits to this data, we find that the obs-housing fit measure is strongly correlated with lower commute distances, including when controlling for a range of other appropriate variables.
