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land use system. This system is highly complex and involves several relationships between the transport system, spatial interactions and land use: Transport system. Considers the set of transport infrastructures and modes that support urban movements of passengers and freight. It generally expresses the level of accessibility. Spatial interactions. Consider the nature, extent, origins and destinations of the urban movements of passengers and freight. They take into consideration the attributes of the transport system as well as the land use factors that are generating and attracting movements. Land use. Considers the level of spatial accumulation of activities and their associated levels of mobility requirements. Land use is commonly linked with demographic and economic attributes. A conundrum concerns the difficulties of linking a specific mode of transportation with specific land use patterns. While public transit systems tend to be associated with higher densities of residential and commercial activities and highways with lower densities, the multiplicity of modes available in urban areas, including freight distribution, conveys an unclear and complex relationship.
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Most transportation - land use models are essentially static as they explain land use patterns, but they do not explicitly consider the processes that are creating or changing them. Their applicability is related to issues such as the age, size and the locational setting of a city. For instance, concentric cities are generally older and of smaller size, while polycentric cities are larger and relate to urban development processes that took place more recently. While most of the conceptual approaches related to transportation and land use relationships have been developed using empirical evidence related to North America and Western Europe, this perspective does not necessarily apply to other parts of the world.
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