Nowadays almost all researchers focusing on the impact of land use on travel behaviour examine personal and household variables such as income, age and household type. Still, within 'homogeneous' groups there may be preferences for travel modes (especially car or public transport), and these may have an impact on the influence of land use on travel behaviour - a subject for which available literature is scare. The objective in this paper is therefore to focus on these preferences, with the aim of answering the following questions: 1) Are there preferences for modes? 2) Is there a relationship between preferences and neighbourhood characteristics? 3) Have preferences for modes played a role in residential choices of households? 4) Do preferences for modes add explanatory power to models for mobility that include personal and household characteristics, and land-use variables? Section 2 will focus on a few of the studies covering preferences for modes; the data used in our research and results will be described in sections 3 and 4, respectively. Section 5 will discuss the implications of our findings and section 6 the most important conclusions and recommendations for further research. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting