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Abstract
The aim of the book is to answer questions related to explanation of the travel mode choice used by people for regular commuting and what role in their decision making can be attributed to location of their residence, i.e. how the travel mode choice differs in case of traditional urban residents and suburban residents. The reason why to study everyday commuting is the fact that people currently living in western cities spend a lot of time and money commuting and that the aggregate of everyday individual mobility generates an important environmental impact.
The travel mode choice is studied from two perspectives: a) statistical and b) behavioural. Great behavioural heterogeneity is systematized using typology of actors and different spheres of rationality in the observed behaviour types.
Differentiation of these factors leads to different implications when considering possibilities of overturning the current increasing trend of car transport. The presented typology serves as well as an example of testing different theoretical concepts of behaviour.
The book employs results of an original research conducted in 2008 and 2009 in Czech cities. The theoretical assumptions are based on the discussion weather everyday travel mode choice as a routinized type of behaviour may be considered rational and as such investigated.
The research combined quantitative and qualitative methodology.