Are Dual-Earner Households A Constraint For Integrating Job/Housing Balances Concepts in Urban And Transport Policy?
Selima Sultana, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina—Greensboro That dual-earner households can be limited in their ability to choose a residential location near their workplace and thereby contribute to longer commuting times in metropolitan areas is a prominent argument against the concept of job-housing balance as a transportation policy for reducing traffic congestion. Drawing on a 5% PUMS dataset for the Atlanta Metropolitan Area in 2000, this paper is one of the first attempts to highlight the extent to which the future growth of dual-earner households may shape the commuting patterns of American cities. Using cartographic methods, analysis of variance and multivariate statistics, this research empirically challenges the conceptually dominant assumptions of dual-earner households’ commuting behaviors, and confirms that the generalization cannot be made that the aggregate average commute of married couple dual-earner households necessarily is longer than that of s
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