Population Density or Populations Size. Which Factor Determines Urban Traffic Congestion?

Sustainability 2021, 13, 4280 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084280, Gachon Center of Convergence Research Working paper 2021-01

21 Pages Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last revised: 7 May 2021

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Yu Sang Chang

Gachon University - College of Business and Economics

Sung Jun Jo

Gachon University - College of Business and Economics

Yoo-Taek Lee

Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University

Yoonji Lee

Boston University - Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Date Written: 2021

Abstract

A large number of articles have documented that as population density of cities increases, car use declines and public transit use rises. These articles had a significant impact of promoting high-density compact urban development to mitigate traffic congestion. Another approach followed by other researchers used the urban scaling model to indicate that traffic congestion increases as population size of cities increases, thus generating a possible contradictory result. Therefore, this study examines the role of both density and population size on traffic congestion in 164 global cities by the use of Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology model. We divide 164 cities into the two subgroups of 66 low density cities and 98 high density cities for analysis. The findings from the subgroups analysis indicated a clear-cut difference on the critical role of density in low-density cities and the exclusive role of population size in high-density cities. Furthermore, using threshold regression model, 164 cities are divided into the two regions of large and small population cities to determine population scale advantage of traffic congestion. Our findings highlight the importance of including analysis of subgroups based on density and/or population size in future studies of traffic congestion.

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Suggested Citation

Chang, Yu Sang and Jo, Sung Jun and Lee, Yoo-Taek and Lee, Yoonji, Population Density or Populations Size. Which Factor Determines Urban Traffic Congestion? (2021). Sustainability 2021, 13, 4280 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084280, Gachon Center of Convergence Research Working paper 2021-01, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3827664

Yu Sang Chang (Contact Author)

Gachon University - College of Business and Economics ( email )

Korea

Sung Jun Jo

Gachon University - College of Business and Economics ( email )

Korea

Yoo-Taek Lee

Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University ( email )

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Yoonji Lee

Boston University - Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

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