DEVELOPMENT OF A CHOICE MODEL FOR EVALUATING SUSTAINABLE URBAN FORM Metin SENBIL COE Researcher Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University Higashi Hiroshima 739-8527 Japan Fax: +81-82-424-6919 e-mail: senbil@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Akimasa FUJIWARA Professor Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University Higashi Hiroshima 739-8527 Japan Fax: +81-82-424-6919 e-mail: afujiw@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Junyi ZHANG Associate Professor Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University Higashi Hiroshima 739-8527 Japan Fax: +81-82-424-6919 e-mail: zjy@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Dail Umamil ASRI Section Chief for Road Infrastructure National Development Planning Agency JI. Taman Suropatu No. 2 Jakarta Pusat Indonesia Fax: +62-21-314-8550 e-mail: dail@bappenas.go.id Abstract: We propose a choice model dealing with the residential location and commute trip mode. The model has been estimated by using stated preference data collected via a household survey conducted in the Jabotabek metropolitan area (Indonesia) in 2003. In the survey, households chose one of three hypothetical residential areas and one of three commuter trip modes– car, bus or train– based on an assumption that the head of a household is working in the city center. Three residential areas, i.e., compact, transit-oriented, and suburban are designed by changing the composition of land use within certain distances to home location. The estimated models suggest that sustainable residential land uses, i.e., compact and transit-oriented support transit services mostly. But residential choices made on these sustainable forms are highly conditioned whether they are close to the work location or not. In addition, land use variables that refer to relative distances to different activity centers also support sustainable urban forms. Key Words: Compact city, transit oriented development, suburban development. 1. INTRODUCTION Urban forms has various effects on the uses of motorized and non-motorized travel modes 1 (e.g., Banister, 1992; Kenworthy and Laube, 1996; Newman and Kenworthy, 1999; Jenks et al., 1996, Cervero, 2002). Dieleman et al. (2002) report that defining the relationships 1 Examples of comprehensive reviews on built environment and travel behavior are Anderson et al. (1996), Badoe and Miller (2000), Crane (1999), Ewing and Cervero (2001), Handy (1996), Steiner (1994) and Stead et al. (2000). Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol. 5, pp. 2164 -2178, 2005 2164