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May 13, 2025
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Proximity Features: A Random Forest Approach to the Influence of the Built Environment on Local Travel Behavior

Publicated to: Urban Science. 9 (4): 122- - 2025-04-14 9(4), DOI: 10.3390/urbansci9040122

Authors:

Benito-Moreno, Manuel; Carpio-Pinedo, Jose; Lamiquiz-Dauden, Patxi J
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Affiliations

Basque Res & Technol Alliance BRTA, TECNALIA Res & Innovat, Parque Tecnol Bizkaia, Derio 48160, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Urban & Reg Planning, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

Recent European policies fostering sustainable mobility target urban proximity as a core strategy for a modal shift towards low-carbon modes. Urban proximity, as a characteristic of the built environment, can be studied as a sub-thread of a broad and complex body of literature which associates urban factors such as density or land use mix with observed travel behavior, so as to address their relative influence on the latter. Building on this previous knowledge, the present work addresses the importance of a diverse set of factors on local travel modal choice between walking and other modes, according to the 2018 Household Mobility Survey of the Metropolitan Region of Madrid, and a large variety of demographic and built environment characteristics. The work proposes to address this importance through a workflow on a set of Machine Learning models, filtering different distance thresholds and purposes of the trips, going through a strict feature selection process, and executing under different schema definitions. The resulting models are inspected for accuracy, feature importance, and composition. Results suggest that even small changes in distance thresholds exert a great impact on all models; sociodemographic variables are slightly more important in most models, yet building age, along with other street layout factors, pervasively obtain fairly accurate predictions too.
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Keywords

AccessibilityActive travelBuilt environmentCityDemandForLand-useLocal accessibilityMobilityMode choiceProximityRandom foresRandom forestUrban designWalking

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Urban Science due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 30/174, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Geography.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-26:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-26:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 18.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 17 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/95120/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 18
  • Downloads: 4
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Benito-Moreno, Manuel) and Last Author (LAMIQUIZ DAUDEN, FCO JOSE).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Benito-Moreno, Manuel.

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Awards linked to the item

This article is a partial result of the project "Accesibility Plannig For The 15-Minute City (ACC < 15 ')", which is funded by the National Program of I + D + I for social challenges, including in the National Plan of Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020 (PID2020-116584RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
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