SHOPPING TRIPS IN A SPATIAL SYSTEM

INKOEPSRESOR I ET RUMSLIGT SYSTEM

In the first part of this study the author concentrates on the problem of defining, delimiting and aggregating spatial systems, a problem which is considered to be of interest to the further development of travel forecasting models. The concept of such a system is gone into in detail and a general definition is offered. The analysis, combined with modern microeconomic theory, is then used as the basis for a shopping trip supply/demand model containing two central hypotheses; one concerning the dependence between trip frequency and distance, and one concerning the dependence between trip frequency and the supply of goods of the shopping centres the household uses. The model was then tested in two delimited areas in Gothenburg, and a detailed study was conducted on the supply of goods of the shopping centres in these areas. In addition, the shopping routines of about 1000 households were mapped and the data obtained used for estimation of the parameters of the model. Both hypotheses were found to have a high coefficient of correlation. The report comprises an English summary of eleven pages. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Gothenburg University, Sweden

  Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Fack
  Gothenburg,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Halloff, U
• Publication Date: 1977

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 179 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Delivery service; Demand; Distance; Forecasting; Households; Length; Mathematical models; Microeconomics; Numbers; Shopping; Shopping centers; Supply; Travel; Travel patterns
• Uncontrolled Terms: Supply and demand
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Old TRIS Terms: Spacial structure
• ITRD Terms: 284: Delivery; 285: Demand (econ); 132: Forecast; 309: Household; 698: Journey; 6488: Length; 6473: Mathematical model; 6432: Number; 320: Shopping centre; 8109: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00178665
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Series B, No. 57 Thesis
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 27 1978 12:00AM