TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Demand, mobility, and constraints: exploring travel behaviors and mode choices of older adults using a facility-based framework
JO  - Journal of transport geography
A1  - Zhou, Yang
A1  - Yuan, Quan
A1  - Ding, Fangyi
A1  - Chen, Mingyang
A1  - Yang, Chao
A1  - Guo, Tangyi
SP  - e103368
EP  - e103368
VL  - 102
IS  - 
N2  - The steady trend of aging has caused great concern on how cities should better accommodate the social needs of aged population. Older people in general have more leisure time than younger adults but are found highly constrained in daily travel. To examine the imbalance between travel demand and transport supply among older adults, this paper decomposes their daily travel into two categories (visits to non-ubiquitous and ubiquitous facilities) according to major characteristics of travel behaviors using Nanjing Household Travel Survey data. Multinominal logit (MNL) models are applied to exploit the effects of household and personal characteristics, trip characteristics, local supplies, and public transport services on travel mode choices. <br><br>RESULTS show that (i) travel demand and transport supply are highly unbalanced for most non-ubiquitous facilities, (ii) relative to younger adults, older adults travel further and highly rely on public transport to access non-ubiquitous facilities, (iii) providing more public transit services nearby non-ubiquitous facilities are more reliable to increase the accessibility of older adults than increasing the number of facilities. These results would help policy-makers better understand travel behaviors of older adults and develop strategies to accommodate their travel demand, especially from the perspective of facility network reorganization.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0966-6923
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103368
ID  - ref1
ER  -