Journal
TRANSPORTATION
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 679-710Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-009-9244-6
Keywords
Lifestyle; Congestion; Travel behavior; Long-range forecasting
Funding
- Rockefeller Foundation
- National Science Foundation
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(Added to the original text) A fundamental solution to the issue of congestion cannot be reached without addressing the question of life-style. This paper reviews the definitions of life-style found in the literature, and identifies variables that have been commonly associated with life-style. Using US consumer expenditure data, life-styles are analyzed longitudinally (examining trends during the 1953-1983 time frame) and cross-sectionally (comparing segments of the population stratified by income, life-cycle stage, and age), and likely relationships to travel behavior are noted. The usefulness of existing empirical findings to long-range forecasting is explored by speculating on shifts of behavioral units across life-style segments, and on shifts in the behavioral patterns within each life-style segment.
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