Impact of Improved Accessibility on Shopping Activity: Person-Based Measure
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 142, Issue 3
Abstract
Accessibility has long been considered as an important factor that influences activity generation, especially nonwork activities. However, the conclusions on whether greater accessibility leads to more travel have been mixed. One reason for the conflicting results is that individual heterogeneity is not taken into account in the previous location-based accessibility measures. This paper fills this gap by operationalizing a person-based space-time accessibility (STA) measure based on the individual’s spatial-temporal constraints. A discrete-continuous model of shopping activity participation and duration is developed incorporating this STA measure in order to investigate the influences of accessibility on activity generation. Using data from a global positioning system (GPS)–based activity travel survey from the Shangdi area of Beijing, China, this paper confirms that accessibility remains a significant positive effect on shopping activity generation. This implies that an individual’s spatial-temporal constraints should be taken into consideration to explore the effect of land use on travel behavior.
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Acknowledgments
The research presented in this paper is funded by Key Projects in the National Science and Technology Pillar Program during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan Period. The authors thank Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST, China) for providing funds for the project. The first author gratefully acknowledges financial support from the China Scholarship Council (CSC).
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Volume 142 • Issue 3 • September 2016
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Received: Apr 22, 2015
Accepted: Nov 19, 2015
Published online: Mar 8, 2016
Discussion open until: Aug 8, 2016
Published in print: Sep 1, 2016
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