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Overview

Marlon G. Boarnet is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and engineering, with a notable emphasis on transportation and related fields.

The main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering

Boarnet's work delves into several subfields of study such as:

  • Transportation
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Building and Construction
  • Sociology and Political Science

The key topics covered in their publications are:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Frequent publication venues for Boarnet's research include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Journal of Planning Education and Research
  • Findings

Frequently collaborating co-authors are:

  • Seva Rodnyansky
  • Andre Comandon
  • Haotian Zhong
  • Raphael W. Bostic
  • Evgeny Burinskiy

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Boarnet demonstrate a focus on transportation behavior, policy impacts, and transit systems. Selected papers include:

  • "Do high income households reduce driving more when living near rail transit?" (2020), published in Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • "Monetary cost, time cost, and mode choice: Transit and ridehailing in California" (2024), published in Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment

Other related papers where Boarnet contributed or that share thematic relevance include:

  • "A two-dimensional propensity score matching method for longitudinal quasi-experimental studies: A focus on travel behavior and the built environment" (2020), Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • "Measuring the impact of COVID-19 policies on local commute traffic: Evidence from mobile data in Northern California" (2023), Travel Behaviour and Society
  • "Effects of new transit lines on commuting: Evidence from restricted-use Census Bureau microdata" (2024), Applied Geography

Best Publications

  • How the built environment affects physical activity: views from urban planning

    Susan L Handy;Marlon G Boarnet;Reid Ewing;Richard E Killingsworth

  • Travel by design : the influence of urban form on travel

    Marlon Boarnet;Randall C. Crane

  • Can Land-use Policy Really Affect Travel Behaviour? A Study of the Link between Non-work Travel and Land-use Characteristics:

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Sharon Sarmiento

  • Spillovers and the Locational Effects of Public Infrastructure

    Marlon G. Boarnet

  • The influence of land use on travel behavior: specification and estimation strategies

    Marlon Boarnet;Randall Crane

  • Evaluation of the California Safe Routes to School Legislation: Urban Form Changes and Children's Active Transportation to School

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Craig L. Anderson;Kristen Day;Tracy McMillan

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS DETERMINANT OF WALKING BEHAVIOR: ANALYZING NONWORK PEDESTRIAN TRAVEL IN PORTLAND, OREGON

    Michael J. Greenwald;Michael J. Greenwald;Marlon G. Boarnet

  • The Irvine-Minnesota inventory to measure built environments: development.

    Kristen Day;Marlon Boarnet;Mariela Alfonzo;Ann Forsyth

  • Enterprise Zones and Employment: Evidence from New Jersey

    Marlon G. Boarnet;William T. Bogart

  • A Broader Context for Land Use and Travel Behavior, and a Research Agenda

    Marlon G. Boarnet

  • AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF INTRAMETROPOLITAN POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH

    Marlon G. Boarnet

  • Johnny Walks to School - Does Jane? Sex Differences in Children's Active Travel to School

    Tracy McMillan;Kristen Day;Marlon Boarnet;Mariela Alfonzo

  • California's Safe Routes to School Program: Impacts on Walking, Bicycling, and Pedestrian Safety

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Kristen Day;Craig Anderson;Tracy McMillan

  • The Irvine-Minnesota inventory to measure built environments: reliability tests.

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Kristen Day;Mariela Alfonzo;Ann Forsyth

  • The Monocentric Model and Employment Location

    Marlon G. Boarnet

  • Walking, Urban Design, and Health Toward a Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Michael Greenwald;Tracy E. McMillan

  • First/last mile transit access as an equity planning issue

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Genevieve Giuliano;Yuting Hou;Eun Jin Shin

  • New Highways, House Prices, and Urban Development: A Case Study of Toll Roads in Orange County, CA

    Marlon G Boarnet;Saksith Chalermpong

  • How do local actions affect VMT? A critical review of the empirical evidence

    Deborah Salon;Marlon G. Boarnet;Susan Handy;Steven Spears

  • HIGHWAYS AND ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY: INTERPRETING RECENT EVIDENCE

    Marlon G. Boarnet

  • The street level built environment and physical activity and walking: Results of a predictive validity study for the irvine minnesota inventory

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Ann Forsyth;Kristen Day;J. Michael Oakes

  • Retrofitting the suburbs to increase walking: evidence from a land-use-travel study.

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Kenneth Joh;Walter Siembab;William Fulton

  • Travel by design

    Marlon Boarnet

  • Can compact rail transit corridors transform the automobile city? Planning for more sustainable travel in Los Angeles

    Douglas Houston;Marlon G Boarnet;Gavin Ferguson;Steven Spears

  • Federal grants and yardstick competition

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Amihai Glazer

  • Land Use, Urban Design, and Nonwork Travel: Reproducing Other Urban Areas’ Empirical Test Results in Portland, Oregon:

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Michael J. Greenwald

  • Accessibility, Travel Behavior, and New Urbanism: Case Study of Mixed-Use Centers and Auto-Oriented Corridors in the South Bay Region of Los Angeles, California

    Kenneth Joh;Marlon G. Boarnet;Mai Thi Nguyen;William Fulton

  • Planning,Climate Change, and Transportation: Thoughts on Policy Analysis

    Marlon G Boarnet

  • The gender gap in non-work travel: The relative roles of income earning potential and land use

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Hsin-Ping Hsu

  • Does state growth management change the pattern of urban growth? Evidence from Florida

    Marlon G. Boarnet;Ralph B. McLaughlin;John I. Carruthers

  • Tracking daily travel; Assessing discrepancies between GPS-derived and self-reported travel patterns

    Douglas Houston;Thuy T. Luong;Marlon G. Boarnet

  • Uncertainty and the timing of an urban congestion relief investment.: The no-land case

    Jean-Daniel M. Saphores;Marlon G. Boarnet

Frequent Co-Authors

Rufus Edwards
Rufus Edwards University of California, Irvine
Jun Wu
Jun Wu University of California, Irvine
G. Mathias Kondolf
G. Mathias Kondolf University of California, Berkeley
Genevieve Giuliano
Genevieve Giuliano University of Southern California
Ann Forsyth
Ann Forsyth Harvard University
Jean-Daniel Saphores
Jean-Daniel Saphores University of California, Irvine
Daniel Sperling
Daniel Sperling University of Haifa
Jeffrey R. Vincent
Jeffrey R. Vincent Duke University
Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon University of Southern California
Reid Ewing
Reid Ewing University of Utah

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