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Unlike for long-term travel-related behavior, information intervention strategies have been widely applied to influence short-term travel-related behavior. This paper proposes an interactive accessibility information intervention strategy to affect people’s long-term travel-related behavior by influencing their residential location choices. As part of it, an online interactive accessibility mapping application is developed to provide users personalized neighborhood accessibility information to different types of potential destinations using different transportation modes based on their work locations and travel needs, and assist their residential location decision-making process. The proposed strategy is implemented for participants relocating to Tippecanoe County in Indiana, USA, by randomly allocating them to control (CG) and experimental groups (EG), with only the EG being provided access to the interactive application. The results illustrate statistically significant differences between the responses of the EG and CG, in terms of their ratings of the importance of accessibility-related factors, the selected neighborhood’s accessibilities, automobile usage, and walk and transit usage. Simultaneous equation models are used to analyze the impact of the proposed strategy and other contributing factors on a participant’s neighborhood accessibility, and the impact of neighborhood accessibility on automobile usage. They illustrate that the proposed strategy, travel-related behavior before relocation, marital status, and frequency of accessing transportation-related information, have a strong correlation with a participant’s neighborhood accessibility, and neighborhood accessibility significantly impacts automobile usage. The results suggest that the proposed strategy can foster sustainable behavior by impacting participants’ long-term travel-related behavior through their residential location choice.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Impacts of Interactive Accessibility Information Intervention Strategy on Residential Location Choice and Travel-Related Behavior

01618707

17-00521

English

20p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Accessibility; Automobile travel; Control groups; Information dissemination; Residential location; Travel behavior

Interactive systems; Relocation

Tippecanoe County (Indiana)

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-00521

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:06AM