Korporaal, Jacko (2022) Daily travel behaviour amongst residents in the north of the Netherlands: Assessing the effect of sociodemographic, psychosocial, and built environment factors. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Private car use produces a number of negative externalities, such as climate change, physical inactivity, and air pollution. Therefore, a shift towards sustainable mobility is needed. A well-developed understanding of daily travel behaviour could help design effective policy measures to foster walking, cycling, and the use of public transport. The effects of built environment factors, sociodemographic factors, and psychosocial factors on daily travel behaviour have been studied extensively. However, daily travel behaviour has barely been studied in the Netherlands, let alone the north of the Netherlands. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the effect of built environment factors, sociodemographic factors, and psychosocial factors to explain daily travel behaviour amongst adults in the north of the Netherlands. An online map-based survey tool was distributed to collect relevant (geographical) data. Complemented by secondary datasets, factor analysis and multivariate linear regression analysis were used to analyse the collected data (N=192). Sociodemographic factors, psychosocial factors (i.e. travel attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and neighbourhood preferences), and some of the built environment factors (i.e. five Ds) were found to be related to both monthly car driving distance and monthly active travel distance, albeit to different extents. In line with previous studies, built environment factors only seemed to play a minor role in explaining daily travel behaviour. It was also found that it is important to take into account trip purpose when studying daily travel behaviour. This thesis concludes with a number of policy recommendations and a reflection and research agenda.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Ramezani, S. |
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2022 10:16 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2022 10:16 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3825 |
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