This paper focuses on relationships explaining daily-mobility behaviour based on residential-mobility processes. Data from an in-depth survey of 300 households who had moved to the outskirts of Greater Lyon was used. The analysis of residential-mobility processes shows that households have no preliminary knowledge of their new environment and no anticipation of living conditions there. There appears to be no direct link between residential-mobility processes and daily-mobility patterns. The link must be found at an intermediate level, following the move, namely in the way households have integrated into their new locality. The impact of these integration processes is perceptible only for working individuals and only on daily trip rates and activity locations. These results show the value of tracking the influence of housing developments on patterns of daily-mobility behaviour, rather than focusing on the processes of residential migration.
Samenvatting