TY - JOUR
T1 - Leisure trips of senior citizens
T2 - Determinants of modal choice
AU - Schwanen, T.
AU - Dijst, M.
AU - Dieleman, F. M.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The use of the passenger car is a major cause of environmental degradation and increasing congestion on traffic arteries. Policy-makers therefore seek ways to curtail this form of private transport. Scientific research can help them attain this goal by identifying factors that influence travel behaviour. This paper examines the mobility of senior citizens with respect to various leisure activities, an area that has remained under-exposed. The analysis shows that older people prefer to take the car for trips in their leisure time. If they own a vehicle, they tend to use it frequently, irrespective of where they live. Characteristics of the residential environment mainly influence the modal choice of seniors who do not have a car of their own. Public transport is primarily used as a substitute for walking and cycling; public transport does not offer seniors a real alternative to the car.
AB - The use of the passenger car is a major cause of environmental degradation and increasing congestion on traffic arteries. Policy-makers therefore seek ways to curtail this form of private transport. Scientific research can help them attain this goal by identifying factors that influence travel behaviour. This paper examines the mobility of senior citizens with respect to various leisure activities, an area that has remained under-exposed. The analysis shows that older people prefer to take the car for trips in their leisure time. If they own a vehicle, they tend to use it frequently, irrespective of where they live. Characteristics of the residential environment mainly influence the modal choice of seniors who do not have a car of their own. Public transport is primarily used as a substitute for walking and cycling; public transport does not offer seniors a real alternative to the car.
KW - Leisure activities
KW - Modal split
KW - Multinomial logistic regression
KW - Residential environment
KW - Senior citizens
KW - The Netherlands
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034859789&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9663.00161
DO - 10.1111/1467-9663.00161
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034859789
SN - 0040-747X
VL - 92
SP - 347
EP - 360
JO - Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
JF - Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
IS - 3
ER -