Examining factors that keep residents with high transit preference away from transit-rich zones and associated behavior outcomes

Many studies on travel-induced residential self-selection assume that travel attitudes are strong enough to influence people's residential decisions. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this article investigates the impacts of preference for transit and other residential preferences on residential location choice. Employing preference ranking, logistic regression and ANOVA tests on survey data from the Oslo metropolitan area, the authors find that individuals with simultaneously high preference for transit and low preference for attributes related to households with children are likely to reside in transit-friendly neighborhoods. Transit preference, while important in residential choice, is more so as second tier after other more important preferences related to lifecycle/demographics are satisfied. Individuals who prefer transit but live in transit-poor zones tend to have higher preference for private garden, a larger number of children, lower income, and are older. Variations in access to transit and transit preference have significant influences on transit use. The results of qualitative interviews are also consistent with these findings and substantiate the mechanism by which the built environment and travel preference affect residential and travel choices.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.12.009
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231730577X
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/09666923
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Wolday, Fitwi
  • Cao, Jason
  • Næss, Petter
• Publication Date: 2018-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 224-234
• 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: Attitudes; Land use; Public transit; Qualitative analysis; Residential location; Travel behavior
• Geographic Terms: Oslo (Norway)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01664661
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 2018 9:31AM