Abstract The study investigates the role of the built environment attributes and their contextual effects on travel behaviour. The study utilized a dataset of 4739 respondents elicited from an online survey distributed in Hamilton City, Canada. A Nested Logit (NL) model and a quadratic polynomial trend surface are employed to spatially investigate the determinants influencing mode choice behaviour. The study contributes to our understanding of how geography moderates the impact of built environment attributes on mode choice behaviour. Socioeconomic demographics are found to play a pivotal role in explaining Hamiltonians' mode choice behaviour. For built environment attributes, sidewalk density is positively associated with walking and public transit use. Moreover, bike lane density is positively associated with biking and negatively associated with public transit use. Regarding land-use entropy (mix), the results show that high land-use entropy is negatively associated with choosing the car as a passenger travel mode. From a contextual perspective, the results affirmed that the influence of built environment attributes is not equally efficacious across the city. Improving the built environment attributes across the city reveals a substantial increase in walking and biking while decreasing the probability of choosing other modes. However, it is noteworthy to mention that the influence of improving the built environment is not homogeneous over geography.

    Highlights The study investigates the influence of the built environment on mode choice. The study employed a Nested Logit model along with a trend surface. Land-use entropy is negatively associated with car-passenger travel mode. Built environment influence is not equally efficacious over geography. Active travel modes are the most affected by Improving the built environment.


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    Titel :

    Built for active travel? Investigating the contextual effects of the built environment on transportation mode choice


    Beteiligte:
    Eldeeb, Gamal (Autor:in) / Mohamed, Moataz (Autor:in) / Páez, Antonio (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-08-11




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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