The concept sustainability has grown to include concerns about social equity as well as economic and environmental. This thesis investigates commuting in Leon County, Florida using a jobs-housing balance/excess commuting framework. Excess commuting has been a popular kind of commuting research for over thirty years. However a dataset from the U.S. Census Bureau offers new opportunities for insight as it is highly spatially disaggregate and available annually for the years 2002-2011. This thesis uses spatially disaggregate measures to analyze whether commuters with different income commuting differently over the course of the recent U.S. recession 2006-2011. To this end, jobs clusters are identified in the region and commuting into these areas is compared to the regional averages. Lastly a relative commuting burden metric is devised to contextualize monetarily what these commuting patterns mean for the different groups. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Geography in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Fall Semester, 2013. / July 15, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references. / Mark Horner, Professor Directing Thesis; Joseph Pierce, Committee Member; Michael Duncan, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_185163 |
| Contributors | Schleith, Daniel Karl (authoraut), Horner, Mark (professor directing thesis), Pierce, Joseph (committee member), Duncan, Michael (committee member), Department of Geography (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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