Print Email Facebook Twitter Residential relocation as a key event in commuting mode shift Title Residential relocation as a key event in commuting mode shift Author Tao, Y. (TU Delft Urban Studies) Petrović, A. (TU Delft Urban Studies) van Ham, M. (TU Delft Urbanism) Fu, Xingxing (Universiteit Utrecht) Department Urbanism Date 2023 Abstract Residential self-selection studies argue that pre-existing travel-related attitude overshadows the role of changes in residential built environment in (re)shaping travel behaviours. Our study contributes to this self-selection argument by including family- and job-related life events as another self-selection source, and accounting for the reverse causality from built environment to travel attitude as opposed to the attitude-induced self-selection. Using a two-wave sample of 1,038 Dutch residents before and after the relocation, we developed structural equation models to investigate longitudinal relationships between changes in residential built environment and job-housing distances, the occurrence of life events, and changes in commuting mode choices and preferences pre-post relocation. Results supported residential self-selection arising from pre-existing preferences for car and public transport commuting, while residents lowered the active commuting preference after moving to a more suburban neighbourhood. Life events concurrent with residential relocation, such as childbirth and job changes, also underlay greater demand for car use. Subject Built environmentLongitudinal designsMobility biographiesNetherlandsResidential self-selectionTravel behaviour To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:537590d7-8fc6-424f-bb89-ae29e87412a8 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103772 ISSN 1361-9209 Source Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment, 119 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Y. Tao, A. Petrović, M. van Ham, Xingxing Fu Files PDF 1_s2.0_S1361920923001694_main.pdf 1.77 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:537590d7-8fc6-424f-bb89-ae29e87412a8/datastream/OBJ/view