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Title:

Relationship between Built Environment and Household Gasoline Consumption in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area: Residential Self-Selection and the Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Accession Number:

01554165

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This study investigates the impact of the built environment on household energy consumption within a developing megacity; it does so by examining the case of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area in Indonesia. It highlights a residential self-selection effect on the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior. Empirical analyses are carried out with a dataset comprising 948 households that was captured through an interview-based survey in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area in 2011. Structural equation modeling is applied to the empirical analysis with regard to the causes of household gasoline consumption. The impacts of major factors that potentially influence household energy consumption—such as household sociodemographics, household attitudes, household ownership of goods, and built environment—are investigated. Our main findings are as follows: (1) the built environment, such as accessibility of residence to various facilities, has an effect on household gasoline consumption, even when the residential self-selection effect is accounted for, and (2) the attitudes of residents—most importantly, their attitude toward eco-friendly actions—have a negative effect on household gasoline consumption. Further analysis is performed to compare the impact on gasoline consumption between those who selected their residence themselves and those who inherited their residence from their parents. The results imply that land-use policies that improve the accessibility of traditional residential areas would contribute less significantly to controlling gasoline consumption than those in newly developed areas.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Transportation and Land Development.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-2775

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Takada, Yuki
Abe, Ryosuke
Kato, Hironori

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Jakarta (Indonesia)

Subject Areas:

Energy; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-2775

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:57PM