2011-05-01
"I can do perfectly well without a car!": An exploration of stated preferences for middle-distance travel
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Transportation , Volume 38 - Issue 3 p. 383- 407
This article presents the results of a study exploring travellers' preferences for middle-distance travel using Q-methodology. Respondents rank-ordered 42 opinion statements regarding travel choice and motivations for travel in general and for car and public transport as alternative travel modes. By-person factor analysis revealed four distinct preference segments for middle-distance travel: (1) choice travellers with a preference for public transport, (2) deliberate-choice travellers, (3) choice travellers with car as dominant alternative, and (4) car-dependent travellers. These preference segments differ in terms of the levels of involvement and cognitive effort in travel decision making, the travel consideration-set and underlying motivations. The study showed that for most people there is more to travel than getting from point A to point B, and that there is considerable heterogeneity in middle-distance travel preferences.
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| doi.org/10.1007/s11116-010-9315-8, hdl.handle.net/1765/25747 | |
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| Organisation | Erasmus Research Institute of Management |
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van Exel, J., de Graaf, G., & Rietveld, P. (2011). "I can do perfectly well without a car!": An exploration of stated preferences for middle-distance travel. Transportation, 38(3), 383–407. doi:10.1007/s11116-010-9315-8 |
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