The Effects of Changes in Accessibility of Travel Destinations on Travel and Realization of Everyday Activities.
2008
Abstract
In the paper, an analysis of the change in accessibility and its effects on everyday life activities and individual time budget is presented. The analysis is based on qualitative data on travel behavior and its changes in an urban population of persons who have recently changed their place of residence.
This moment in their life cycle is chosen because it changes habitual patterns of travel behavior, leads to a new assessment of the travel alternatives and enables to investigate the accessibility needs of all family members. The preliminary results indicate that the accessibility of leisure time activities are at least as important as the accessibility of city centers in the process of residential locality choice.