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Title: | Scrutinizing individuals' leisure-shopping travel decisions to appraise activity-based models of travel demand | Authors: | KUSUMASTUTI, Diana HANNES, Els JANSSENS, Davy WETS, Geert Dellaert, B.G.C. |
Issue Date: | 2010 | Publisher: | SPRINGER | Source: | TRANSPORTATION, 37(4). p. 647-661 | Abstract: | Activity-based models for modeling individuals' travel demand have come to a new era in addressing individuals' and households' travel behavior on a disaggregate level. Quantitative data are mainly used in this domain to enable a realistic representation of individual choices and a true assessment of the impact of different Travel Demand Management measures. However, qualitative approaches in data collection are believed to be able to capture aspects of individuals' travel behavior that cannot be obtained using quantitative studies, such as detailed decision making process information. Therefore, qualitative methods may deepen the insight into human's travel behavior from an agent-based perspective. This paper reports on the application of a qualitative semi-structured interview method, namely the Causal Network Elicitation Technique (CNET), for eliciting individuals' thoughts regarding fun-shopping related travel decisions, i.e. timing, shopping location and transport mode choices. The CNET protocol encourages participants to think aloud about their considerations when making decisions. These different elicited aspects are linked with causal relationships and thus, individuals' mental representations of the task at hand are recorded. This protocol is tested in the city centre of Hasselt in Belgium, using 26 young adults as respondents. Response data are used to apply the Association Rules, a fairly common technique in machine learning. Results highlight different interrelated contexts, instruments and values considered when planning a trip. These findings can give feedback to current AB models to raise their behavioral realism and to improve modeling accuracy. | Notes: | [Kusumastuti, Diana; Hannes, Els; Janssens, Davy; Wets, Geert] Hasselt Univ, Transportat Res Inst, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Dellaert, Benedict G. C.] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Mkt Sect, Dept Business Econ, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands. | Keywords: | CNET interview; Mental representation; Activity-based models of travel demand; FEATHERS | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/11007 | ISSN: | 0049-4488 | e-ISSN: | 1572-9435 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11116-010-9272-2 | ISI #: | 000278123400005 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2011 |
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