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Title:

Functionings Enhanced by Social Networks in Elder’s Activity Participations: The Capability Approach

Accession Number:

01478123

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Social networks can generate desires to perform activities with others (activity opportunities), while it can also provide mobility especially for those who cannot use a car (mobility support). In this sense, at least two different functionings could be enhanced by social networks, but these two aspects have not been well distinguished in activity-travel behavior analysis. This study first attempts to develop a conceptual framework based on Sen's Capability Approach to shed light on the multiple roles of social networks in elder's activity-travel decisions.The authors then develop a simple operational method by utilizing logsum measures in order to empirically identify the roles of social networks and these impacts on activity-travel behavior. The empirical analysis is conducted focusing on elder's social, shopping and leisure activity participations in a typical newtown in Hiroshima, Japan. The results show that family members may only contribute to the increase in mobility support, while friends may contribute to both social network roles in the case study area. The authors also find that activity opportunities have positive impacts on social and shopping activity participation, but less significant impacts on leisure activities.

Supplemental Notes:

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

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-3112

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Chikaraishi, Makoto
Fujiwara, Akimasa
Kuwano, Masashi
Zhang, Junyi

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Candidate Terms:

Social networking

Geographic Terms:

Hiroshima (Japan)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3112

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:38PM