Life-style and travel demand

By Ryuichi Kitamura. 2009

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Abstract(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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Transportation

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Citations in the corpus

What Moves Us? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reasons for Traveling (2015, background): “Among these is the shift from socioeconomic variables to integrated concepts such as lifestyle (van Acker, van Wee, & Witlox, 2010; Kitamura, 2009; Salomon & Ben-Akiva, 1982).”
Going soft: on how Subjective Variables Explain Modal Choices for Leisure Travel (2011, background): “Lifestyles refer to the individual’s opinions and motivations, or orientations toward general themes such as leisure, family and work (Salomon and Ben-Akiva, 1983; Bootsma et al., 1993; or for a more comprehensive review see Kitamura, 2009).”
Nonwork Accessibility as a Social Equity Indicator (2015, background): “restaurant visits, and elevated levels of recreation (Santos et al. 2011; Handy, DeGarmo, and Clifton 2002; Kitamura 2009).”
Key research themes on travel behavior, lifestyle, and sustainable urban mobility (2016, unknown): “Following Salomon (1983) and Kitamura (1988), various researchers have tried to examine the general concept of lifestyle more quantitatively (e.g., Lin, Lo, & Chen, 2009).”