Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior?
We compare the travel behavior of urban versus suburban baby boomers in the Boston metropolitan area. Using propensity score matching to attempt to control for self-selection and data from two surveys implemented in 2008 and 2010, we find that the urban boomers tend to be less automobile-dependent t...
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| author | Lee, Jae Seung Park, Sungjin Zegras, Pericles C Ben-Joseph, Eran |
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| description | We compare the travel behavior of urban versus suburban baby boomers in the Boston metropolitan area. Using propensity score matching to attempt to control for self-selection and data from two surveys implemented in 2008 and 2010, we find that the urban boomers tend to be less automobile-dependent than suburban baby boomers. Urban baby boomers also make more recreational non-motorized transport (NMT), social, utilitarian, and transit commute trips. Most of these differences seem to be primarily a result of the urban setting, not the particular preferences of boomers living in urban settings. We find very small self-selection effects on automobile commuting, recreational NMT, and utilitarian trips: 1–7% of observed influence. We also find some evidence that baby boomers’ preference for social activities tends to be mismatched to their environments – suburban boomers want more social opportunities than their settings enable. For public transport, we find a relatively large self-selection effect, 43% of observed influence, suggesting a transit-oriented boomer market segment exists. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1074912022-09-29T10:26:06Z Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? Lee, Jae Seung Park, Sungjin Zegras, Pericles C Ben-Joseph, Eran Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Zegras, P. Christopher Zegras, Pericles C Ben-Joseph, Eran We compare the travel behavior of urban versus suburban baby boomers in the Boston metropolitan area. Using propensity score matching to attempt to control for self-selection and data from two surveys implemented in 2008 and 2010, we find that the urban boomers tend to be less automobile-dependent than suburban baby boomers. Urban baby boomers also make more recreational non-motorized transport (NMT), social, utilitarian, and transit commute trips. Most of these differences seem to be primarily a result of the urban setting, not the particular preferences of boomers living in urban settings. We find very small self-selection effects on automobile commuting, recreational NMT, and utilitarian trips: 1–7% of observed influence. We also find some evidence that baby boomers’ preference for social activities tends to be mismatched to their environments – suburban boomers want more social opportunities than their settings enable. For public transport, we find a relatively large self-selection effect, 43% of observed influence, suggesting a transit-oriented boomer market segment exists. New England University Transportation Center 2017-03-20T14:39:02Z 2017-03-20T14:39:02Z 2014-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0966-6923 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107491 Lee, Jae Seung et al. “Does Urban Living Influence Baby Boomers’ Travel Behavior?” Journal of Transport Geography 35 (2014): 21–29. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3581-7830 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.01.004 Journal of Transport Geography Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Prof. Zegras via Peter Cohn |
| spellingShingle | Lee, Jae Seung Park, Sungjin Zegras, Pericles C Ben-Joseph, Eran Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? |
| title | Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? |
| title_full | Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? |
| title_fullStr | Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? |
| title_short | Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior? |
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