Kasraian, Dena and Maat, Kees and van Wee, Bert (2016) Three Decades of Transport Infrastructure Development and Travel Behaviour Change in the Netherlands. REAL CORP 2016 – SMART ME UP! How to become and how to stay a Smart City, and does this improve quality of life? Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society. pp. 977-981.
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Abstract
It is argued that improvements in the supply of transport infrastructure networks affect accessibility, which in turn influences the distribution of land uses, activities linked to them and eventually the travel behaviour of individuals. Identifying the extent and rate of change in travel behaviour as a response to change in spatial and socio-demographic characteristics, requires long-term empirical investigation of their interrelation. The assessment of long-term trends can provide guidelines for the type, extent and location of future investments in transport and land use development. This paper explores trends in access to transport infrastructure (proximity to the railway stations), land use (location of inhabitants), socio-demographic characteristics of the travellers and travel behaviour (distance travelled by car, train and active modes and total number of trips per day) over three decades. It uses data from Dutch National Travel Surveys at seven time points of five-year intervals from 1980 to 2010 in the Randstad, the Netherlands. The results indicate that while the total number of trips per day has remained stable over time, total kilometres travelled has risen until the mid-1990s after which it has witnessed a decrease. Further more, the findings suggest that train is increasingly used for travelling longer distances and the location of home municipality and proximity to train stations (within a distance of 500 to 1250 m) are closely related to the total train kilometres travelled.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Travel behaviour, Long-term impacts, The Randstad, Infrastructure Developement, Socio-Demographic Characteristics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
| Depositing User: | REAL CORP Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2016 17:55 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2016 17:55 |
| URI: | http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/164 |
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