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Life-style and travel demand: From Special Report 220: A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1988, pp. 149–189. Reproduced with permission of TRB
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-009-9244-6Abstract
(Added to the original text) A fundamental solution to the issue of congestion cannot be reached without addressing the question of life-style. This paper reviews the definitions of life-style found in the literature, and identifies variables that have been commonly associated with life-style. Using US consumer expenditure data, life-styles are analyzed longitudinally (examining trends during the 1953–1983 time frame) and cross-sectionally (comparing segments of the population stratified by income, life-cycle stage, and age), and likely relationships to travel behavior are noted. The usefulness of existing empirical findings to long-range forecasting is explored by speculating on shifts of behavioral units across life-style segments, and on shifts in the behavioral patterns within each life-style segment.
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