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Title:

Influence of Individual Characteristics and the Built Environment on Grocery Shopping Travel Frequency

Accession Number:

01372967

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This research investigated influences on the frequency of travel to a grocery store based on four domains: individual travelers’ demographics and socioeconomic status, their attitudes toward food, their food shopping behavior (mode choice and store selection), and the built environment around their homes and grocery stores. Grocery shopping travel data came from the 2009 Seattle Obesity Study, with 2,001 respondents sampled from King County, WA. Four binary logistic models estimated the impact of the four domains on travel frequency to a grocery store (≤ once and ≥ twice a week). The results showed that the respondents’ attitude toward food and their food shopping behavior exerted the strongest influence on grocery shopping trip frequency. Built environment variables had a modest influence. The strongest predictors of a higher frequency of weekly grocery shopping trips were: having more children age 12-18 in the household, not thinking that food should be inexpensive, shopping at a high-cost grocery store, not driving to the store, and using a store located in a neighborhood with lower residential property values. The study suggested that frequent shoppers were more likely to allocate more time and resources to food, to have more teenagers in their household, and were less likely to drive to their primary store than infrequent shoppers. Frequent shoppers did not appear to contribute to additional driving trips, but infrequent shoppers traveled longer distances to their grocery stores.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-2752

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Jiao, Junfeng
Moudon, Anne Vernez
Drewnowski, Adam

Pagination:

22p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-2752

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:11PM