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Shopping After Work: Space Time Accessibility and Trip Generation
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Accession Number:

01559066

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Component

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Transportation Research Board Business Office

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Accessibility has long been considered as an important factor to influence trip generation, especially non-work trips. However, the results of empirical studies were rather conflicting. This paper revisits this issue by incorporating space time accessibility, a different concept of accessibility from place based measures, in a shopping trip generation model using data from a GPS based activity travel survey in Shangdi, Beijing. The results suggest that space time accessibility shows significant positive effect on shopping trip after work. The induced shopping demand due to Staggered Work Hours, a travel demand management policy, is predicted with the trip generation model incorporating space time accessibility. It is concluded that space time accessibility is significantly associated with individual’s activity decision and can be useful to inform policy makers about time-related policies.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-3119

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ding, Yu
Lu, Huapu

Pagination:

13p

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; References; Tables

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Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3119

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PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:03PM