WANTING TO TRAVEL, MORE OR LESS: EXPLORING THE DETERMINANTS OF THE DEFICIT AND SURFEIT OF PERSONAL TRAVEL

This article reports on a study undertaken to investigate the determinants of people's desire to increase or decrease the amount they travel. The study included data from 1,357 working commuters, all of whom were residents of three different neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The dependent variables are indicators of Relative Desired Mobility for ten categories of travel (short- and long-distance overall and by several mode- and purpose-specific categories). The respondents used a five-point scale to indicate the amount of travel they want to do (in each category) compared to what they are doing now. Explanatory variables included general travel attitudes, specific liking for travel in each of the categories, objective and subjective measures of the amount currently traveled in each category, and personality, lifestyle, and socio-demographic characteristics. The authors conclude that the liking for travel has a strong positive impact, and subjective qualitative assessments of mobility have a strong negative impact, on the desire to increase one's travel. The authors conclude with a discussion about the difficulties of separating research about one's attitude toward travel from one's attitude toward the activities that one is traveling to undertake.

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• Authors:
  • Choo, S
  • Collantes, G O
  • Mokhtarian, P L
• Publication Date: 2005-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 135-164
• Serial:
  • Transportation
  • Volume: 32
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISSN: 0049-4488
  • EISSN: 1572-9435
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/11116

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Commuters; Commuting; Demographics; Mobility; Probits; Travel behavior; Travel demand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Affinity for travel; Lifestyle
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00987516
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 17 2005 12:00AM