Can information promote transportation-friendly location decisions? A simulation experiment

Daniel A. Rodríguez, Jonathan Levine, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Jumin Song

Journal of Transport Geography, 2011, vol. 19, issue 2, 304-312

Abstract: Where people live, work, shop, and recreate fundamentally determines their local travel options. Yet, information problems such as the cost of conducting comprehensive searches and cognitive load have been shown to limit decision-making. In the context of residential decision-making, information problems are likely to influence which locations get chosen. This study examines whether providing people seeking a rental home with map-based information about the transit and pedestrian accessibility of the available units might influence their residential location choices. More specifically, would some people make use of this information to select more accessible residences than they would have otherwise chosen?

Keywords: Transportation–land use connection; Traveler information; Location choice; Experimental design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2010.04.001

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