2019/02/05 by Ali Ardeshiri, Ardeshiri, Ali, Akshay Vij +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Economic and Environmental Valuation #FOS: Economics and business #General Economics (econ.GN) #Korean Urban and Social Studies #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Urban Transport and Accessibility #econ.GN #q-fin.EC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.01986
openalex publication_date 2019/02/05 · arxiv created 2019/11/28 · arxiv updated 2019/12/02 · openalex created_date 2022/07/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Issues such as urban sprawl, congestion, oil dependence, climate change and public health, are prompting urban and transportation planners to turn to land use and urban design to rein in automobile use. One of the implicit beliefs in this effort is that the right land-use policies will, in fact, help to reduce automobile use and increase the use of alternative modes of transportation. Thus, planners and transport engineers are increasingly viewing land use policies and lifestyle patterns as a way to manage transportation demand. While a substantial body of work has looked at the relationship between the built environment and travel behaviour, as well as the influence of lifestyles and lifestyle-related decisions on using different travel modes and activity behaviours, limited work has been done in capturing these effects simultaneously and also in exploring the effect of intra-household interaction on individual attitudes and beliefs towards travel and activity behavior, and their subsequent influence on lifestyles and modality styles. Therefore, for this study we proposed a framework that captures the concurrent influence of lifestyles and modality styles on both household-level decisions, such as neighbourhood location, and individual-level decisions, such as travel mode choices using a hierarchical Latent Class Choice Model.