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Title:

Understanding Stated Neighborhood Preferences: the Roles of Life-Cycle Stage, Mobility Style, and Lifestyle Aspirations

Accession Number:

01660367

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Stated neighborhood preference is informed by a host of factors describing an individual’s socioeconomic condition, current environmental context, past transportation decisions, and future aspirations for certain housing and accessibility attributes. To date, travel applications and behavioral models investigating the residential location choice process have been overly parsimonious in differentiating decision-makers and the existing supply of neighborhoods available for their selection. Consequently, these invaluable urban policy tools are generally unable to illuminate on how emerging market segments and changing lifestyle aspirations may impact future housing, land use, and transportation decisions. To offer this needed insight for better explaining the sources of heterogeneity in residential preferences, this Portland, Oregon study incorporated stated preference survey data into an integrated choice and latent variable framework. The adoption of this analytic framework permitted the latent classification of decision-makers by their lifecycle stage and mobility style, development of latent constructs reflecting their lifestyle aspirations for housing and transportation access, and an investigation of how these distinctive aspects relate to an individual’s stated choice in neighborhood type. Study findings revealed mobility style to be a stronger predictor of lifestyle aspirations than membership to a lifecycle stage, and that the lifestyle aspiration to live in a single-family dwelling and/or location with strong non-auto access best explained neighborhood preference. In all, this study’s integration of lifecycles stage, mobility style, and lifestyle aspirations in a choice modeling framework provided new insight into the mechanisms and complexities underlying an individual’s stated preference for a residential environment.

Supplemental Notes:

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

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-02218

Language:

English

Authors:

Gehrke, Steven R
Singleton, Patrick A
Clifton, Kelly J

Pagination:

5p

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

Geographic Terms:

Portland (Oregon)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02218

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 10:32AM