Dynamic analysis of holiday travel behaviour with integrated multimodal travel information usage: A life-oriented approach. (October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Bobin; Shao, Chunfu; Ji, Xun
• Is Part Of: Transportation research. Volume 104(2017)
• Page Start: 255
• Page End: 280
• Publication Date: 2017-10
• Subjects: Dynamic analysis -- Holiday travel behaviour -- Integrated Multimodal Travel Information (IMTI) usage -- Biographical interdependence -- Life-oriented approach -- State dependence; Transportation -- Research -- Periodicals; 388.011
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2017.03.013
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0965-8564

Abstract

Abstract: The Integrated Multimodal Travel Information (IMTI) plays an important role in the evolution process of holiday travel behaviour, which is seldom investigated. To fill this gap, this study analyses holiday travel behaviour dynamics with IMTI usage, based on the life-oriented approach. IMTI usage is taken as a separate life domain in this study, and a two-way relationship between holiday travel biography and IMTI usage biography over the life course, is examined after controlling for the effects of residential, household structure, employment/education, and car ownership biographies. Based on the web-based life history survey data, statistical characteristics of mobilities in each life biography are first analysed. Then, different random-effects ordered logistic models are established to investigate the biographical interdependencies from three aspects: intra-domain interdependency, inter-domain interdependency and outer-domain interdependency. The results show that the life biography is not only affected by a personal life course, but also affected by external background of the times. Under the interaction of inner individual factors and outer environment factors, there is an obvious dynamic two-way relationship between holiday travel biography and IMTI usage biography. Meanwhile, residential, household structure, employment/education and car ownership biographies have significant effects on these two life biographies. Especially, the influence of long-term state dependence for different life domains, over the life course, is much more obvious when explaining holiday travel behaviour dynamics and IMTI usage mobilities. Therefore, the life-oriented approach provides a valid method for analysing the dynamics of holiday travel behaviour with IMTI usage.