Residential self-selection and travel behaviour: What are the effects of attitudes,reasons for location choice and the built environment? |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway;2. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, United States;3. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway;1. ALMEC Corporation, Hanoi Office, 5th Floor, HQ Building, 193C3 Ba Trieu, Hanoi, Vietnam;2. Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, 1-5-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi Hiroshima 739-8529, Japan;1. Transport and Logistics Group, Faculty Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, POBox 5015, 2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands;2. Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, 14 Upper Woburn Place, WC1H 0NN London, United Kingdom;3. Geography Department, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S8, 9000 Gent, Belgium;4. Department of Transport & Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | In studies of the effect of built environment on travel behaviour, residential self-selection is an increasingly important issue. Self-selection implies that households locate in places that provide them with conducive conditions for their preferred way of travelling. In these studies, it is assumed that attitudes toward different travel modes are an important factor in location choice, and that households are unconstrained in choosing their preferred residential location. This paper challenges these assumptions, by distinguishing between the more passive travel attitude and travel considerations as a deliberate reason to locate in a certain place. Based on a survey among 355 recently relocated households in Dutch TOD locations, we find that the association between travel attitude and residential environment is weak, and that the association between travel attitude and travel as a factor in location choice is moderate at best. Multivariate models show that both travel attitude and travel being a reason for location choice influence travel mode use, suggesting that travel attitude is insufficient to fully reflect self-selection processes. In comparison to other travel modes, train travel is most influenced by the fact whether residents deliberately chose to live in an environment conducive to using this mode. |
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