Four common misconceptions in quantitative studies of the built environment and travel
本文指出建成环境与出行定量研究中四个常见误解，源于对因果机制缺乏理论反思，并基于2017-2022年62篇文章的综述提出改进建议。
This paper points at four common misconceptions in quantitative studies of the built environment and travel, all of which rooted in a lack of theoretical reflection on the causal mechanisms by which built environment characteristics could plausibly influence travel behavior. Based on a review of 62 published articles over the period 2017–2022, the following misconceptions are discussed: Omission of metropolitan and city-level built environment characteristics; ignoring internal causal relationships between different built environment characteristics; inclusion of control variables that are themselves heavily influenced by built environment characteristics; and misconception of the phenomenon of residential self-selection. The paper ends by pointing at remedies for avoiding these misconceptions.