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Examining the Impacts of Residential Self-Selection on Travel Behaviour: A Focus on Empirical Findings

The spread of the COVID-19 virus has resulted in unprecedented measures restricting travel and activity participation in many countries. Social distancing, i.e., reducing interactions between individuals in order to slow down the spread of the virus, has become the new norm. In this viewpoint I will discuss the potential implications of social distancing on daily travel patterns. Avoiding social contact might completely change the number and types of out-of-home activities people perform, and how people reach these activities. It can be expected that the demand for travel will reduce and that people will travel less by public transport. Social distancing might negatively affect subjective well-being and health status, as it might result in social isolation and limited physical activity. As a result, walking and cycling, recreationally or utilitarian, can be important ways to maintain satisfactory levels of health and well-being. Policymakers and planners should consequently try to encourage active travel, while public transport operators should focus on creating ways to safely use public transport.

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8667408/file/8667410.pdf

The effect of COVID-19 and subsequent social distancing on travel behavior

Causes and conditions.

Survey Errors and Survey Costs

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/910464/file/6827335.pdf

Car ownership as a mediating variable in car travel behaviour research using a structural equation modelling approach to identify its dual relationship

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4107770/file/6801560.pdf

Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/664002/file/6818328.pdf

When Transport Geography Meets Social Psychology: Toward a Conceptual Model of Travel Behaviour

When transport geography meets social psychology. Towards a new conceptual model of travel behaviour

Over the past decades research on travel mode choice has evolved from work that is informed by utility theory, examining the effects of objective determinants, to studies incorporating more subjective variables such as habits and attitudes. Recently, the way people perceive their travel has been analyzed with transportation-oriented scales of subjective well-being, and particularly the satisfaction with travel scale. However, studies analyzing the link between travel mode choice (i.e., decision utility) and travel satisfaction (i.e., experienced utility) are limited. In this paper we will focus on the relation between mode choice and travel satisfaction for leisure trips (with travel-related attitudes and the built environment as explanatory variables) of study participants in urban and suburban neighborhoods in the city of Ghent, Belgium. It is shown that the built environment and travel-related attitudes—both important explanatory variables of travel mode choice—and mode choice itself affect travel satisfaction. Public transit users perceive their travel most negatively, while active travel results in the highest levels of travel satisfaction. Surprisingly, suburban dwellers perceive their travel more positively than urban dwellers, for all travel modes.

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Veronique Van Acker

Papers

Car ownership as a mediating variable in car travel behaviour research using a structural equation modelling approach to identify its dual relationship

Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs

When Transport Geography Meets Social Psychology: Toward a Conceptual Model of Travel Behaviour

When transport geography meets social psychology. Towards a new conceptual model of travel behaviour

Travel mode choice and travel satisfaction: bridging the gap between decision utility and experienced utility