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Title:

Young Adults’ Activity-Travel Behavior: Why Are We Still Operating Within the Same Framework? A Conceptual Exploration

Accession Number:

01659714

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The ongoing generational shift and technology-fueled evolution of transportation offer opportunities for policy makers to leverage changing behavior and build a more sustainable future. Therefore, much research has emerged seeking to understand whether those changes are transient or permanent. However, the approaches presented do not scale up to the innovative content of observed changes. Examples include 1) looking at travel as a single transaction, simply focusing on interactions preceding travel (i.e. looking for information for travel) or following the decision to travel (i.e. navigation), and 2) neglecting to explicitly capture the childhood technology experience and its impact on adulthood behavior. This conceptual paper contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it situates the analysis of young adults’ activity-travel behavior within a life-course framework. Second, it develops the first conceptual framework for young adults’ activity-travel behavior by incorporating original approaches with existing literature and insights from qualitative data collection. The framework described herein and the tools developed to test it can advance both knowledge and methodology by enabling a more comprehensive and differentiated examination of young adults’ behavior. It also creates opportunities for policy interventions at the more disaggregated level. This will only gain importance as the interplay between technology and travel expands and young adults’ travel behavior becomes a critical determinant of trends across the broader population in years to come.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-05933

Language:

English

Authors:

Mjahed, Lama Bou
Mahmassani, Hani S

ORCID 0000-0002-8443-8928

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05933

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:32AM