Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities?
Daily mobility is an ordinary problem that fits into the complexity of everyday household life. Mobility is also a dimension of identity, a predisposition which gives individuals a specific framework for dealing with activities and travels. Thus, households’ choices are made with a wide range of rat...
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| description | Daily mobility is an ordinary problem that fits into the complexity of everyday household life. Mobility is also a dimension of identity, a predisposition which gives individuals a specific framework for dealing with activities and travels. Thus, households’ choices are made with a wide range of rational elements (economic, time, accessibility, etc.), but also with more sensible elements (preferences, past experiences, satisfaction, etc.). In addition, large-scale urban projects aim to improve modal split and to facilitate households’ commutes conditions. Since poles of employment generate the main concentrated flows of urban travel, those poles are at the core of strategic planning. Beyond improving mobility, changing job location may involve contrasted issues for households, positive (e.g., travel efficiency, sustainable mobilities, etc.) and negative (e.g., freedom of choice, undesirable mode change). This paper focuses on an exceptional workplace relocation (2015) in Montréal – McGill University Health Center – and explores the daily commute choices for more than 10,000 metropolitan workers. While metropolitan accessibility is sharply improved, the new workplace offers a low-quality mobility environment compared to former ones (n=5) located downtown. What mobility choices do metropolitan employees make in order to rebuild their travel routines? What is the importance of both mobility habits and mobility identities in commute changes/satisfaction? Using an internet retrospective survey (n=1 977) conducted with the concerned workers, mobility strategies have been explored. Principal component analyses and clustering are used to take into account lifestyles typology into a logistic regression model in order to explain mode choice according to identities, workers’ socioeconomic characteristics, built environment and structural urban characteristics. Beyond the importance of accessibility, attitudes towards mobility have strong explanation power for specific workers' profiles. These variables should be better embraced by transportation plans. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-051bf728dee3477787855636741532cd2023-06-07T12:40:19ZengJournal of Urban ResearchArticulo: Journal of Urban Research1661-49412022-12-012310.4000/articulo.5364Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities?Sébastien LordBenjamin LamoureuxPhilippe GerberDaily mobility is an ordinary problem that fits into the complexity of everyday household life. Mobility is also a dimension of identity, a predisposition which gives individuals a specific framework for dealing with activities and travels. Thus, households’ choices are made with a wide range of rational elements (economic, time, accessibility, etc.), but also with more sensible elements (preferences, past experiences, satisfaction, etc.). In addition, large-scale urban projects aim to improve modal split and to facilitate households’ commutes conditions. Since poles of employment generate the main concentrated flows of urban travel, those poles are at the core of strategic planning. Beyond improving mobility, changing job location may involve contrasted issues for households, positive (e.g., travel efficiency, sustainable mobilities, etc.) and negative (e.g., freedom of choice, undesirable mode change). This paper focuses on an exceptional workplace relocation (2015) in Montréal – McGill University Health Center – and explores the daily commute choices for more than 10,000 metropolitan workers. While metropolitan accessibility is sharply improved, the new workplace offers a low-quality mobility environment compared to former ones (n=5) located downtown. What mobility choices do metropolitan employees make in order to rebuild their travel routines? What is the importance of both mobility habits and mobility identities in commute changes/satisfaction? Using an internet retrospective survey (n=1 977) conducted with the concerned workers, mobility strategies have been explored. Principal component analyses and clustering are used to take into account lifestyles typology into a logistic regression model in order to explain mode choice according to identities, workers’ socioeconomic characteristics, built environment and structural urban characteristics. Beyond the importance of accessibility, attitudes towards mobility have strong explanation power for specific workers' profiles. These variables should be better embraced by transportation plans.http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/5364WorkplaceDaily MobilityMode ChoiceLifestyleIdentity |
| spellingShingle | Sébastien Lord Benjamin Lamoureux Philippe Gerber Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities? Articulo: Journal of Urban Research Workplace Daily Mobility Mode Choice Lifestyle Identity |
| title | Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities? |
| title_full | Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities? |
| title_fullStr | Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities? |
| title_short | Metropolitan mobility options and individual identities: How much households' mobility choices are determined by residential-related identities? |
| title_sort | metropolitan mobility options and individual identities how much households mobility choices are determined by residential related identities |
| topic | Workplace Daily Mobility Mode Choice Lifestyle Identity |
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