THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN FORM AND ACTIVITY PATTERNS: PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS FROM AN ACTIVITY DIARY SURVEY
DE RELATIE TUSSEN STEDELIJKE STRUCTUUR EN VERPLAATSINGSPATRONEN: VOORLOPIGE CONCLUSIES UIT EEN ACTIVITEITENONDERZOEK
Activity participation and activity patterns are determined both by a person's needs and preferences and the opportunities and constraints imposed by the (urban) environment. These opportunities and constraints in turn depend on the attributes of the activity locations, their spatial distribution, and the transport network linking the activity locations. In the context of the policy discussion to reduce traffic, it is either implicitly or explicitly assumed that urban form is systematically related to activity patterns and related trip generation. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of empirical evidence regarding the strength and nature of this assumed relationship. To examine this relationship a diary survey has been administered in 19 neighbourhoods, distributed over 9 Dutch cities, to collect data on daily activity patterns. The cities and neighbourhoods were selected such as to represent a number of different urban forms and transportation networks. In this paper, the authors attempt to assess the relationship between several attributes of the physical urban structure and aspects of trip patterns. The attention is focused on frequent activities like working, shopping, and recreation. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD E203386.
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Corporate Authors:
Colloguium Vervoersplanologisch Speurwerk
P.O. Box 45
Delft, Netherlands -
Authors:
- SNELLEN, D
- Borgers, A
- Timmermans, H
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1998
Language
- Dutch
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 1095-1114
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Households; Interviewing; Recreation; Residential areas; Shopping centers; Transportation modes; Travel; Trip generation; Urban areas; Work trips
- Uncontrolled Terms: Selection
- Geographic Terms: Netherlands
- ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 309: Household; 9147: Interview; 698: Journey; 696: Journey purpose; 621: Journey to work; 8078: Netherlands; 9142: Recreation; 307: Residential area; 9072: Selection; 320: Shopping centre; 1145: Transport mode; 313: Urban area
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00797913
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Sep 8 2000 12:00AM