Travel Behaviour Essay

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Researches on travel behaviour can be broadly grouped into two (Curtis and Perkins (2006): (1) studies on the impact of urban form on travel behaviour and (2) socio-demographic/economic and lifestyle factors that may influence travel behaviour. Some combine elements of the urban form and socio-demographic debate. The most important socio-demographic/economic variables that influence travel behaviour include age, gender, household composition, income, gender and car ownership, level of education, occupational status, ability to drive, person travelling with and purpose of travel.
Travel behaviour researches have been more or less intra-urban in nature (Boarnet & Crane (2001); Cervero, 2002; Goudie, 2002; Naess (2003) and Naess & Jensen (2004); Soltani & Primerano, 2005) with few studies on rural (Curtis & Perkins 2006) and interurban travel behaviour.
The primacy of certain cities engenders the movements of passengers between them and other neighbouring smaller settlements. These cities do not offer only administrative functions but also social, economic, educational, commercial...

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