Duet of the Commons: The Impact of Street Cleaning on Car Usage in the New York City Area

Zhan Guo; Peiyi Xu

doi:10.1177/0739456X12459360

Duet of the Commons: The Impact of Street Cleaning on Car Usage in the New York City Area

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Abstract

This article explores the concept of "public commons" and its relationship with travel decisions under a unique setting: street cleaning in the New York City area. Using a natural experimental design, it investigates the impact of street cleaning on car usage for five hundred randomly selected households. Street cleaning encourages car usage for households without off-street parking and discourages car usage for households with off-street parking. The net effect is an increase of vehicle miles traveled by 7.1 percent, at least 27 percent of which is not a mere redistribution from non-street-cleaning days.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	34-48
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Planning Education and Research
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X12459360
State	Published - Mar 2013

Keywords

New York City
car usage
natural experiment
property rights
street cleaning
street parking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Urban Studies

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