The effect of travel cost on frequencies of shopping and recreational trips in Sweden

Erling Häggström Lundevaller

Journal of Transport Geography, 2009, vol. 17, issue 3, 208-215

Abstract: This article focus on how the cost of travel affects travel behavior. A trip frequency model for recreational and shopping trips is suggested and used to investigate this. The data that is used comes from a Swedish travel habit survey where the respondents’ trip frequencies of both types of trips on a certain day are recorded. This is likely to introduce a correlation structure, which is incorporated in the model. Special attention is paid to the effect of travel cost on trip frequencies for different regions and income groups. As a measure of the sensitivity of cost changes, elasticity of demand is calculated. The precision of the elasticities are evaluated with simulated p-values.

Keywords: Poisson regression; Correlated count data; Travel frequencies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.05.002

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