Highlights Explore the land use-travel relationship from a household perspective. Examine how residential and workplace built environments affect partners’ travels. Land use factors have varied and even contrast effects on partners’ travel behaviors. Land use factors affect husbands’ travels indirectly by affecting wives’ travels.

    Abstract The linkage between travel and the built environment has received extensive research attention over the past decades. However, the existing studies normally evaluate the built environment effect on travel from an individual-based perspective, neglecting the influence of intra-household interactions. We argue that individuals’ travel behavior is derived from the allocation of household tasks and resources (e.g., household vehicles) and the travel behaviors of household members are interdependent. This suggests that the built environment may impact one member’s travel behavior indirectly through its influence on others members’ travel choices. Thus, examining the travel impact of the built environment needs to consider intra-household interactions. This paper proposes to analyze the land use-travel relationship from a household perspective. We simultaneously examine the effects of the built environments of residential and work locations on married couples’ travel behaviors, considering the interrelations between their travels and controlling for both partners’ travel attitudes. The empirical study in Beijing, China indicates that the built environment effect on travel is different between partners. Two work environment factors influence the partners’ driving behaviors in opposite directions. Moreover, the wife’s travel behavior mediates the association between the built environment and the husband’s travel behavior. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the land use impact on travel behavior from the household perspective.


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    Title :

    Influences of the built environment on travel: A household-based perspective


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2019-10-08


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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