Commute well-being differences by mode: Evidence from Portland, Oregon, USA

Smith, Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2016.08.005

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“…Second, prior and ongoing efforts to site residential development along public transit lines and in the vicinity of employment centres and commercial districts are predicated on a conceptualization of sufficiency grounded in commitment to stem the volume of resources (including time) devoted to commuting and to encourage a shift to nonmotorized modes (St-Louis et al 2014;Morris 2014;Smith 2017). Especially provocative and enlightening have been the special cases of "non-commuters" and "telecommuters" (Mokhtarian 1990;Plaut 2004).…”

Section: Sufficiency From the Perspective Of Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

Cohen

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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Housing plays a significant role in impelling demand for natural resources and driving economic growth in high-income countries. Public policies, commercial prerogatives, and other inducements have encouraged construction and occupancy of ever-larger homes and this pattern has persisted in the face of decreasing household size, declining fertility, ageing populations, and increasing complexity of domestic relationships. This situation has created a perverse mismatch between available housing stocks and residential requirements. Additionally, imperatives to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions and to hasten progress on the United Nations 2030 Agenda demand new planning priorities. Building on the sufficiency turn in the field of sustainable consumption, this paper first formulates parameters for estimating an environmentally tenable and globally equitable amount of per person living area. It then highlights five emblematic cases of "space-efficient" housing. While acknowledging that prevalent spatial norms are evolving, the conclusion discusses the profound challenges of achieving a successful sustainable consumption transition.

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Section: Sufficiency From the Perspective Of Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

Cohen

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Many authors have investigated how travel can evoke various positive emotions, express desires and goals, and be done for its own sake (Anable & Gatersleben, 2005;Diana, 2008;Handy, Weston, & Mokhtarian, 2005;Loo, Corcoran, Mateo-Babiano, & Zahnow, 2015;Milakis, Cervero, van Wee, & Maat, 2015;Mokhtarian, in progress;Mokhtarian, Salomon, & Singer, 2015;Ory & Mokhtarian, 2005;Salomon & Mokhtarian, 1998;Smith, 2017;Steg, 2005). For instance, traveling can make a person feel excited, relaxed, bold, comfortable, or happy.…”

Section: Travel Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the positive utility of travel and mode choice

Singleton

2020

Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome

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Why do people travel? Underlying most travel behavior research is the deriveddemand paradigm of travel analysis, which assumes that travel demand is derived from the demand for spatially separated activities, traveling is a means to an end (reaching destinations), and travel time is a disutility to be minimized. In contrast, the "positive utility of travel" (PUT) concept suggests that travel may not be inherently disliked and could instead provide benefits or be motivated by desires for travel-based multitasking, positive emotions, or fulfillment. The PUT idea assembles several concepts relevant to travel behavior: utility maximization, motivation theory, multitasking, and subjective well-being. Despite these varied influences, empirical analyses of the PUT concept remain limited in both quantity and scope. There is a need for more fundamental development and classification of the PUT idea and its multifaceted nature. The wide variety and quality of ways to measure PUT attributes are further research challenges. Additionally, few studies investigate both major aspects of the PUT concept-travel activities and travel experiences-simultaneously. Finally, research is only beginning to examine empirical associations between PUT measures and travel behaviors such as mode choice. This dissertation addresses many of these gaps in conceptualizing, measuring, and modeling the PUT concept. First, a literature review strengthens the definition, classification, and empirical support for a PUT, defined as "any benefit(s) accruing to a traveler through the act of traveling." The two primary PUT categories are travel activities (travel-based multitasking) and travel experiences (travel subjective well-being), and the most useful PUT measures involve gathering self-reported assessments of these topics. Based on this ii review, an online questionnaire is designed and administered to nearly 700 commuters in the Portland, OR, region. The survey includes detailed questions about commute mode choice, activity participation, travel usefulness, positive emotions and fulfillment, and travel liking for a recent home-to-work trip. Next, these PUT measures are empirically examined using factor analyses, finding groupings of activities and common unobserved constructs of hedonic ("Distress," "Fear," "Attentiveness," "Enjoyment") and eudaimonic ("Security," "Autonomy," "Confidence", "Health") subjective well-being. Many of these factors exhibit large variations among travel modes-walking and bicycling commuters are the most satisfied and appear to value time spent exercising-and are predicted (somewhat less strongly) by other trip and traveler characteristics in ordered logit regression and structural equation models. Finally, integrated choice and latent variable models are estimated to examine relationships between measures of the PUT concept and commute mode choice. This is made possible by the unique dataset that collects PUT measures for not only the chosen mode but also modal alternatives. Measures of travel-based multitasking are signi...

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“…Their findings suggest that bicycling and walking to work can be one of the most practical and effective ways to meet recommended physical activity levels. Traveling by bicycle can also benefit individuals' mental health; Smith (2016) found that those who walk and bike to work tend to be happier with their commutes than those who drive or utilize some other mode. Furthermore, Rogers et al (2011) provided evidence that levels of social capital are higher in neighborhoods that support active travel than those which do not.…”

Section: Socialmentioning

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How Technology Can Affect the Demand for Bicycle Transportation: The State Of Technology and Projected Applications of Connected Bicycles

MacArthur¹,

Harpool²,

Scheppke³

2019

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The term "connected vehicle (CV)" refers to vehicles equipped with devices, which enable wireless communication between internal and external entities, supporting vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. The widespread deployment of CVs will address a range of transportation challenges related to safety, mobility, and sustainability. Recent research efforts on connected bicycles have focused on the uses and limitations of the state-of-the-art technologies, safety implications, the reliability of various communication modes, and consumer adoption. Existing research focuses on either technologies that utilize data received from sensors and the internet to govern devices attached to the bicycle (situational sensing) or two-way communication. While there has been some mention of how these technologies may encourage an increase in bicycling through enhanced safety, the research is sparse and there is a lack of discussion on how connected bicycles can address other barriers to bicycling. This report provides context into the societal needs of bicycling and the current strategies utilized to increase the bicycle mode share, a cohesive review of existing and prototyped connected bicycle technologies, and discussion about their potential to mitigate barriers to bicycling and better accommodate the needs and desires of diverse riders. We then explore the limitations and benefits of one-way and two-way communications, the potential of bicycle-toinfrastructure technologies, and the future needs and expected pathways of connected bicycle technologies.

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Commute well-being differences by mode: Evidence from Portland, Oregon, USA

Cited by 117 publications

References 10 publications

New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

Exploring the positive utility of travel and mode choice

How Technology Can Affect the Demand for Bicycle Transportation: The State Of Technology and Projected Applications of Connected Bicycles

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