The built environment has a close relation with the travel carbon emissions of local residents. This study firstly reviews the development framework and the theoretical basis of the resident' travel behavior theory. Based on this framework, the measurement index of the built environment and its influence on the number of cars owned by the residents and the travel carbon emission are analyzed, and the residential self-selection effect of their relations is revealed. It is shown that the built environment measurement index and its impact on the residents' travel carbon emissions are not uniform.

built environment  /  car ownership  /  residential self-selection  /  travel behavior  /  travel carbon emission