Piesch, L.J. (2022) The Effect of Socio-Economic and Spatial Characteristics on Acceptable Travel Distances. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Transport geography research suggests the existence of acceptable travel distances (ATDs) as maximum distance thresholds which determine whether a person travels to a particular destination or not. ATDs are usually based on assumptions on desired behavior or derived from actual travel behavior. However, those assumptions have been shown to mismatch perceived accessibility. Travel behavior is also the result of both choice and constraints, which makes it difficult to evaluate if the identified distances are desirable or acceptable for different population groups. This study follows a new approach using a dataset on perceived accessibility in the Netherlands to derive ATDs with the aim to analyze the effect of destination type,socio-economic and spatial factors for different transport modes on ATDs. Employing cross-tabulations and logistic regressions, this study identified distance thresholds after which the perceived accessibility by active transport modes drops substantially.Incorporating those distance thresholds in planning can incentivize the use of active transport modes. Moreover, it was found that ATDs by car are larger for men than for women for all destination types except for health care trips. ATDs by active transport modes do not automatically decrease as age increases for leisure and supermarket destinations. ATDs by public transport are always larger for urban than for rural residents, and the ATDs by car are always larger for rural than for urban residents. To promote the use of sustainable transport modes, the findings emphasize that policy makers should focus more on the proximity of leisure locations and supermarkets in neighborhoods with older populations and on rural public transport development.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Economic Geography |
| Supervisor: | Pot, F.J. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2022 08:38 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2022 08:38 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4097 |
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