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Title:

A Tour-Based Analysis on the Interrelationships of Built Environment, Travel Behavior, and Car Ownership

Accession Number:

01519385

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In recent years, there is a growing body of literature on exploring how the built environment affects travel behavior indirectly by affecting intermediating factors (such as car ownership, travel distance, and tour complexity). The aim of this paper is to provide insight into the impact of the built environment on tour-based travel behavior, considering car ownership, travel distance, and tour complexity as intermediating factors simultaneously. By using the 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data, this paper empirically examined the effects of the built environment on tour-based personal travel behavior in the Maryland-Washington, D.C. Region area. This study also investigated whether and how the influences of the built environment on travel vary between home-based work tour and home-based non-work tour. A multiple-group structural equation model (SEM) was employed in this study and the model results confirmed that the effects of car ownership, travel distance, and tour complexity on travel behavior are statistically significant and should be considered as mediating factors when analyzing the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior. It was also found that the impacts of the built environment on tour-based travel behavior significantly differ between home-based work tour and non-work tour. These findings can help planners and policy makers develop a more thorough understanding on how the built environment influences travel behavior.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Tour-Based Analysis on Interrelationships of Built Environment, Travel Behavior, and Car Ownership.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-5326

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ding, Chuan
Liu, Chao
Lin, Yaoyu
Ma, Ting

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Non-work trips

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-5326

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:52PM