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Assessing the impact of urban form measures on nonwork trip mode choice after controlling for demographic and level-of-service effects Jayanthi Rajamani Department of Civil Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C1761, Austin, TX, 78712-0278 Phone: (512) 471-4535, Fax: (512) 475-8744, Email: jrajamani@ Chandra R. Bhat Department of Civil Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C1761, Austin, TX, 78712-0278 Phone: (512) 471-4535, Fax: (512) 475-8744, Email: bhat@ Susan Handy Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California at Davis 2132 Wickson Hall, Davis, CA 95616, Phone: (530) 752-5878, Fax: (530) 752-3350, Email: slhandy@ Gerritt Knaap National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education University of Maryland 1117 Architecture Building, College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-6083, Fax: 301-314-9897, Email: gknaap@ and Yan Song National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education University of Maryland 1117 Architecture Building, College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (301) 405-6626, Fax: (301) 314-9897, Email: ysong@ TRB 2003: Paper # 03-3392 Final Submission for Publication: April 1, 2003 Word Count: 7065 words (includes 3 tables) ABSTRACT The relationship between travel behavior and the local built environment remains far from entirely resolved, despite several research efforts in the area. The current paper investigates the significance and explanatory power of a variety of urban form measures on nonwork activity travel mode choice. The travel data used for analysis is the 1995 Portland Metropolitan Activity Survey conducted by Portland Metro. The database on the local built environment was developed by Song (2002) and includes a more extensive set of variables than previous studies that have examined the relationship between travel behavior and the local built environment using the Portland data. The results of the multinomial logit mode choice model indicate that mixed-uses p