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Residential Self-Selection and Travel : The Relationship Between Travel-Related Attitudes, Built Environment Characteristics and Travel Behaviour.
Title:
Residential Self-Selection and Travel : The Relationship Between Travel-Related Attitudes, Built Environment Characteristics and Travel Behaviour.
Author:
Bohte, W.
ISBN:
9781607506560
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Series:
Sustainable Urban Areas
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Background -- Aim, research questions and approach of the study -- Outline -- References -- Measuring attitudes in research on residential self-selection and travel behaviour -- Introduction -- The inclusion of attitudes in travel behaviour models -- Attitudes, built environment characteristics and travel behaviour in empirical studies on residential self-selection -- Measurement methods in studies on residential self-selection and travel behaviour -- Conclusion -- References -- Deriving and validating trip purposes and travel modes for multi-day GPS-based travel surveys -- Introduction -- Literature review of GPS-based methods for the collection of travel behaviour data -- Architecture of the GPS-based system -- A case study -- Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Cause or effect? An analysis of the role of travel-related attitudes to identify residential self-selection concerning travel behaviour -- Introduction -- Literature -- Methodology and data -- Results -- Conclusions and recommendations -- References -- Travel-related attitudes, beliefs and residential self-selection -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Data description -- Data analyses and results -- Conclusions and recommendations -- References -- Conclusions and discussion -- Introduction -- Overview of the results -- Reflections -- Policy recommendations -- References -- Samenvatting -- Appendix 1 Questionnaires -- Internet questionnaire version Amersfoort -- Evaluation GPS survey -- Curriculum vitae.
Abstract:
Most Western national governments aim to influence individual travel patterns - at least to some degree - through the spatial planning of residential areas. Nevertheless, the extent to which the characteristics of the built environment influence travel behaviour remains the subject of debate among travel behaviour researchers. This work addresses the role of residential-self-selection, an important issue within this debate. Households may not only adjust their travel behaviour to the built environment where they live, but they may also choose a residential location that corresponds to their travel-related attitudes. The empiricalanalysis in this work is based on data collected through an internet survey and a GPS-based survey, both of which were conducted among homeowners in three centrally located municipalities in the Netherlands. The study showed that residential self-selection has some limited effect on the relationship between distances to activity locations and travel mode use and daily kilometres travelled. The results also indicate that the inclusion of attitudes can help to detecting residential self-selection, provided that studies comply with several preconditions, such as the inclusion of the 'reversed' influence of behaviour on attitudes.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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