Longitudinal study of travel attitude and travel activities on residential self-selection: A case study of small-sized Indian city

《Longitudinal study of travel attitude and travel activities on residential self-selection: A case study of small-sized Indian city》

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作者: Amitabha Acharjee;Partha Pratim Sarkar

来源: CITIES,Vol.129,Issue1,Article 103934

语言: 英文

关键字: Urbanization;Accessibility on residential location;Quality of neighbourhoods;Agartala (India)

作者单位: National Institute of Technology, Agartala 799046, India;National Institute of Technology, Agartala 799046, India

摘要: Due to rapid urbanization, it is essential to understand the factors related to the selection of residential location and their effect on socio-economic variables, built environment, travel attitudes, and travel behavior. In this longitudinal study, structural equation modeling was used to characterize people's choices based on the importance of location. The importance of location, accessibility of residential location, and quality of neighbourhoods, along with mode-specific latent variables such as pro-bicycle perception, were used as latent variables. This study also includes the effect of two-wave samples of a small Indian city related to the attitudinal variables for a residential location with varying land use mixes. Besides the latent variables related to the selection of residential locations, this study also highlights the changes based on travel attitudes and travel behavior of individuals over time with respect to changes in land use mix. Moreover, these results illustrate the effect of individuals' attitudes over a period of time based on the changes in land use within the residential area. Indicator variables such as the price of land and the size of a building have positively affected the importance of location. Apart from these indicators, the selection of residential location depends on the factors related to less polluted areas. This study also suggests policymakers give more importance to using active modes of transport. They should take the individual's perceptions associated with bicycle use and facilitate various opportunities to improve the choice of a residential location over time.