The demand for ‘active travel’: An unobserved components approach

David Clive Broadstock, Alan Collins

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Abstract

There is a demand for cycling, walking or taking non-motorized modes together – a demand for ‘active travel’ – a term describing modes of transport which incur significant cardiovascular effort or metabolic costs. It is possible to establish a meaningful and policy relevant view of active travel demand by controlling for partially unobservable (not simply unobserved) generalized cost effects – where generalized cost can be considered the sum of all individual cost-components. Using monthly aggregated data from the UK National Travel Survey it is found that income effects are greater for lower income households and diminish with wealth and that some ‘seasonal substitution’, due to ‘generalized’ cost effects, can be identified. One consequence of this is that policy for active travel needs to be seasonally adaptive to reflect these substitution effects.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)326-335
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Transport and Health
Volume3
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2016

Keywords

  • Active travel
  • Seasonal substitution
  • Seasonally adaptive policy
  • Unobservable components

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Transportation
  • Pollution
  • Safety Research
  • Health Policy
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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