Vance's Commuting Analysis Extended to the Suburban Southwest: Tempe, Arizona

Elizabeth K. Burns

University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center

Abstract: James E. Vance, Jr., (1960) showed that a community's character evolves as metropolitan intraurban transportation and local employers' labor needs change. Commuting patterns define a community's laborshed, the area from which employees are drawn, and employment field, the area in which residents work. This Tempe, Arizona, study demonstrates the applicability of Vance's concepts to present-day inner suburbs in Southwestern metropolitan areas using two modern procedures, a geographic information system analysis and sampling from employee commuting surveys collected by the metropolitan travel reduction program. While data availability may limit comparative studies, Tempe's 1990 extensive laborshed and smaller employment field reveal that this suburb is both a bedroom community and a satellite employment center.

Keywords: Social; and; Behavioral; Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992-02-01
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