Social Networks and Travel Behaviour

Kowald, Matthias; Axhausen, Kay W.

doi:10.4324/9781315609560

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“…The two identified various forms of visual data and their collection methods, including ‘found data’, ‘researcher-created data’ and ‘respondent-created data’. Looking first at ‘found data’, several spatial-related studies have used personal items such as old photo albums or calendars (e.g., Kowald & Axhausen, 2016) to support interviewees’ ability to reconstruct, for example, how and where they previously lived.…”

Section: Participatory Visual Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Participatory Visual Methods to Explore Multi-Local Living Arrangements - The Example of Work-Life Biographies and Reflexive Photography

Garde

Greinke

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper explores work-related multi-locality – living in several places for work-related reasons – using qualitative interviews including participatory visual methods. To give space to multi-locals as people with complex living and working arrangements and to support their narratives, the visual methods work-life biographies and reflexive photography were used during interviews. After introducing the state of research on work-related multi-local living and visual methods, two German case studies, the one in the city of Stuttgart in Baden-Wuerttemberg, the other in the rural district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony, are described. The aim of this paper is to ascertain the value of using visual methods to explore multi-local living arrangements. The research questions are: (1) Which (specific) elements do multi-local employees visualise when using work-life biographies and reflexive photography? (2) Which new insights into multi-local living arrangements do the two methods provide? (3) What are the pros and cons of using such methods within qualitative interviews? The study shows that multi-locals used common thematic elements when using the visual methods: For example, especially words, numbers, specific signs and bars in the case of biographies and certain situation, people and objects in case of the photographs. Furthermore, both methods allowed new insights into multi-local living arrangements, such as their temporal and spatial dimensions, the interplay between living and working arrangements over time as well as the place attachment of multi-locals. Using visual methods during qualitative interviews provided clear added value in studying multi-locality, as it created a suitable interview introduction, reinforced spoken statements or facilitated the discussion of sensitive topics. Participatory visual methods can be used to explore a range of topics in qualitative studies looking at participants in complex situations. For multi-locality studies in particular, visual methods can be beneficial in stimulating and addressing a combination of spatial and temporal thinking.

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Section: Participatory Visual Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Participatory Visual Methods to Explore Multi-Local Living Arrangements - The Example of Work-Life Biographies and Reflexive Photography

Garde

Greinke

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Visiting friends, going to a sports club, or having a business meeting appear to be common motives for travel, and in each of these situations, there is a relation between an ego and a network partner to analyze. There seems to be clear evidence that social networks are a reason to travel (9,10). However, travel behavior research in the realm of social network analysis is mainly focused on leisure networks.…”

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Social Network Approach to Analyze Stability and Variability of Travel Decisions

Puhe

Schippl

Fleischer

et al. 2021

Transportation Research Record

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Large-scale changes are expected for urban mobility systems, triggered by digitalization and various other factors such as climate concerns or urbanization. For researchers and planners, it is therefore becoming increasingly important to understand the determinants of variability and stability of travel decisions. The motivation for the study is that, in transportation research and modeling frameworks, travel choices usually derive from individual traits and accessibility variables. What is underrepresented by such an approach is that decisions are also socially embedded. The authors postulate that mobility patterns are strongly interwoven with the way people configure their social networks. The paper introduces and discusses an empirical approach to investigate the social embeddedness of mobility decisions. The basic premise of the approach is that social network configurations provide an important setting for daily life in general and individual travel decisions in particular. Analysis is based on a three-phase interview study, conducted in Karlsruhe, Germany. The analytical approach reveals that a substantial part of travel is only loosely coupled to generalized costs of transport. Instead, the motivational degree linked to certain relationships largely influences willingness to travel and the relative stability of everyday life. Relationships that are internally satisfying or extremely familiar to people appear highly persistent. Furthermore, relationships that provide a certain degree of flexibility appear changeable, though not necessarily in all dimensions. Only a very small number of relationships appear both substitutable and changeable.

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“…Recognizing that travelers may have differing preferences regarding the balance of in-person versus electronic communication they wish to engage in, Roy et al used social network analysis to identify clusters of travelers on the basis of this balance (17). Kowald and Axhausen provided an overview of contemporary research on the topic (18). They noted, in particular, that the emergence of disaggregate travel models provides a stronger foundation on which to model the effects of social networks on travel, because individual networks can be simulated in a way that is impossible in aggregate models.…”

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Conceptual Models of the Effect of Information and Communications Technology on Long-Distance Travel Demand

Erhardt

2017

Transportation Research Record

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Rapidly evolving information and communications technology (ICT) poses a risk to the accuracy of long-distance travel (LDT) demand forecasts. The nature of this risk is multifaceted: ICT could reduce demand if people substituted virtual for physical travel, or it could serve as a complement and thereby induce more demand. This paper presents two conceptual models for better understanding the nature of those relationships. Both models start from an existing LDT model and envision how that model can be adapted to capture ICT effects, with one considering the effects explicitly and the other implicitly. When the effects of future technology are being forecast, data collected in the past or in the present, when the future technology does not exist, are inherently limited. In such situations, conceptual models such as these can be applied by using a scenario-based approach to explore a range of reasonable outcomes. This strategy can be an important tool not just for ICT, but also for understanding the risks posed by other future technologies, such as autonomous vehicles.

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Social Networks and Travel Behaviour

Cited by 10 publications

References 91 publications

Using Participatory Visual Methods to Explore Multi-Local Living Arrangements - The Example of Work-Life Biographies and Reflexive Photography

Using Participatory Visual Methods to Explore Multi-Local Living Arrangements - The Example of Work-Life Biographies and Reflexive Photography

Social Network Approach to Analyze Stability and Variability of Travel Decisions

Conceptual Models of the Effect of Information and Communications Technology on Long-Distance Travel Demand

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