Built Environment and Car Travel: Analyses of Interdependencies

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IOS Press, 2009 - Business & Economics - 174 pages
Analyses of Interdependencies. An academic and policy debate has been running in recent decades on whetherand to what extent travel behaviour is influenced by the built environment.This dissertation addresses the influence on daily travel distance, chainingbehaviour, car ownershi
 

Contents

Preface
1
Introduction
5
Land use and travel behaviour Expected effects from the perspective of utility theory and activitybased theories
27
A causal model relating urban form with daily travel distance through activitytravel decisions
49
Influence of land use on tour complexity A Dutch case
71
Household car ownership in relation to residential and work locations
89
Influence of the residential and work environment on car use in dualearner households
117
Conclusions and discussion
139
Samenvatting
153
Appendix Questionnaires and diary
160
Curriculum Vitae
173
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