Investigating the impact of Sense of Place on site visit frequency with non-motorized travel modes

This paper examines the relationships between: (i) Sense of Place (SOP); (ii) non-motorized travel; and (iii) the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). A guiding principle in built environment design for sustainability and livability is a latent construct termed Sense of Place (SOP), which leads visitors to perceive and associate a strong identity or character with a particular location. The authors hypothesize that visitors' SOP affects their access of sites via walking/biking or other non-motorized travel modes. Furthermore, they also hypothesize their ICT use shapes their SOP. In an information era, mobile ICT provide ubiquitous information and communication across multiple geographies, expanding interaction with locations to include both the physical and virtual. Visitors can engage with a location pre and post-trip through online reviews or virtual visualizations, such as Google Street View. To investigate these interrelationships, they conduct a visitor intercept survey and analyze the responses to investigate the direction and magnitude SOP impacts on non-motorized site visit frequency. The estimation results indicate that SOP statistically impacts non-motorized visits; ICT use for learning about the site was found to positively impact visitors' estimated SOP.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.12.008
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692317305161
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Chen, Roger B
  • Sekar, Ashok
• Publication Date: 2018-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 268-282
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Volume: 66
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0966-6923
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycling; Built environment; Nonmotorized transportation; Telecommunications; Walking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Sense of place; Site visits
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01664665
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 2018 9:31AM