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Travel Plan Impacts

  • Chris De GruyterEmail author
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the effectiveness of travel plans at a set of case study sites. The aim of the chapter is to evaluate the effectiveness of travel plans for new residential developments, while considering the potential for self-selection bias effects.

Keywords

Control Site Propensity Score Match Travel Behaviour Residential Development Travel Survey 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Transport StudiesMonash UniversityClaytonAustralia

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