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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 34-48 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Planning Education and Research |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
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