Downtown LA as Large-Scale TOD?

STUDY AREA

Study Area

NEW RESIDENCES

Downtown Has Extensive Transit Service Available Throughout Area

Downtown Has Extensive Transit Service Available Throughout Area

IN THE PAST 10 YEARS, MOST TRACTS HAVE SEEN DECREASES IN WALKING AND PUBLIC TRANSIT USE, AND INCREASES IN COMMUTE TIME

Changes in Commuting Behavior

INDEX OF COMMUTE CHANGES

Index = Public Transit + Walking + Commute Time

TRACTS WITH MOST NEW APARTMENTS GENERALLY HAVE SEEN INCREASES IN MEDIAN INCOME

Changes in Median Income by Census Tract

Models

Model One Used to Project Tracts

Model Two Used to Create Rasters

Metadata

Skills Used

1) Geocoding – Addresses of apartments and condominiums built between 2000 and 2009

2) Geoprocessing – Clipping . . . lots of clipping

3) Buffering – Buffer of one mile radius around employment centers

4) Indexing – Index of changes in commute patterns

5) Spatial Analyst – Creation and reclassification of rasters

6) Hot Spot Analysis – Identification of locations with most changes in commuting patterns

Skills Used

7) Aggregating Attribute Fields – Creation of fields for changes in commute types and times.

8) Boundary Sub-Set Selection – Selection of Los Angeles tracts from larger shapefile.

9) Graduated Colors – Identification of differing levels income, transit use and walking among tracts.

10) Attribute Sub-Set Selection – Selecting major roads from larger shapefile.