Carolina Transportation Program
The Carolina Transportation Program ctp.unc.edu recently completed a survey of residents in 20 new urbanist and 20 conventional suburban neighborhoods spanning 15 states. We received more than 500 survey responses. The data are being entered by staff at University of Oregon. We are looking for a student interested in leading an MP examining one of the following aspects of the data:

a) Whether the number of trips, and the number of trips by mode, vary by neighborhood type (after controlling for other influences);
or
b) Whether social cohesion and willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good vary by neighborhood type (after controlling for other influences).

In the past students have been successful in using neighborhood surveys to publish research:

Shay, E. Fan, Y. Rodríguez, D.A, Khattak, A.J. 2006. Drive or Walk? Utilitarian Trips
within a Neo-Traditional Neighborhood, Transportation Research Record 1985, 154-161

Brown, A.L., Khattak, A.J., and Rodríguez, D.A. 2008. Neighborhood Types, Travel and
Body Mass: A Study of New Urbanist and Suburban Neighborhoods, Urban Studies, 45, 8.

If interested, please contact Daniel Rodriguez danrod@unc.edu