Journal
TRANSPORTATION
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 243-265Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-009-9198-8
Keywords
Mobility orientations; Lifestyles; Leisure mobility styles; Urban mobility; Social networks; Leisure travel
Funding
- Swiss Association of Transportation Engineers (SVI)
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Leisure travel is the most difficult travel purpose to analyse due to the lack of fixed spatial and temporal referents and the consequent flexibility in patterns. This paper addresses lifestyles, social influence, and the travellers' social networks, issues that have proved valuable for travel behaviour research in confronting the complexity of leisure travel. An approach for constructing leisure mobility styles, based on orientations towards leisure and mobility, will be presented first and then the hypotheses that transport behaviour can be better explained through analysis of leisure mobility styles will be tested. Multivariate analysis reveals that the leisure mobility style group makes a significant contribution towards clarifying variance for the activities 'Visiting friends and relatives', 'Travel participation', 'Mode choice', and 'Travel distance for leisure'. The use of leisure mobility styles is most useful for developing practical intervention pointers where the in-group homogeneity of lifestyle should be addressed in greater detail.
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