Residential self-selection and travel [electronic resource] : the relationship between travel-related attitudes, built environment characteristics and travel behaviour / Wendy Bohte.

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ISBN:

9781607506560

Title:

Residential self-selection and travel [electronic resource] : the relationship between travel-related attitudes, built environment characteristics and travel behaviour / Wendy Bohte.

Author:

Bohte, Wendy.

Personal Author:

Bohte, Wendy.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Sustainable urban areas, 35

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Measuring attitudes in research on residential self-selection and travel behaviour; Deriving and validating trip purposes and travel modes for multi-day GPS-based travel surveys; Cause or effect? An analysis of the role of travel-related attitudes to identify residential self-selection concerning travel behaviour; Travel-related attitudes, beliefs and residential self-selection; Conclusions and discussion; Samenvatting; Appendix 1 Questionnaires; Curriculum vitae.

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Subject Term:

Neighborhoods -- Sociological aspects.

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IOS Press.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

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Summary

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.

Excerpts

This book contains 20 papers drawn from presentations and discussions at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Complex Societal Dynamics: Security Challenges and Opportunities, held in Zagreb, Croatia in December 2009. The theory of complex systems views societies as complex configurations of actors engaged in overlapping and interlocking patterns of relationship. While the rapid development of computing capabilities has provided the tools to study complex systems in a controlled, repeatable and rigorous manner, these are rarely applied to the security domain, and security experts are not adequately informed as to the applicability of such systems to their areas of concern. This book, and the ARW that it summarizes, address this problem with a forum where the fields of complexity and security meet. The papers presented here attest to the diversity of scientific approaches - including some classic methodologies from physics and economics -- which can be applied to complex societal dynamics and its implications for security. Subjects covered include: the social construction of security and threats, scientific reasoning as a tool for making policy decisions, European counter terrorism infrastructure, anthropological studies of human interactional networks in virtual worlds, the potential threats of nanotechnology, theoretical and formal approaches to social conflict and a simulation model of phase transitions in passive supporters of terrorism. Of equal interest to those working in the fields of complexity and security, this book covers the common ground essential for an improved understanding of how complex societal processes can affect the security issue. Excerpted from Residential Self-Selection and Travel: The Relationship Between Travel-Related Attitudes, Built Environment Characteristics and Travel Behaviour by W. Bohte All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.