The impacts of an urban light rail system on residential property values: A case study of the Houston METRORail transit line

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-169

  Pan, Qisheng ^a  

^a TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Houston; light rail transit; multi level regression; ordinary linear regression; residential property values

Indexed keywords

HOUSTON; IMPACT STUDY; LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT); LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MULTI-LEVEL REGRESSION; PROPERTY VALUE; REGRESSION MODEL;

HOUSING; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT;

ACCESSIBILITY; DATA SET; LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PROPERTY MARKET; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; URBAN TRANSPORT;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876271833     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2012.739311     Document Type: Article

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