TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Built environment diversities and activity-travel behaviour variations in Beijing, China
JO  - Journal of transport geography
A1  - Wang, Donggen
A1  - Chai, Yanwei
A1  - Li, Fei
SP  - 1173
EP  - 1186
VL  - 19
IS  - 6
N2  - The association between built environment and travel behaviour has received considerable research attention in recent years. In an attempt to contribute to this growing literature, this paper investigates the connections between urban built environments and activity-travel patterns in Beijing, the capital city of China. We characterize the built environment in Beijing and establish associations between built environment and activity-travel behaviour in terms of car ownership, time spent for out-of-home activities, and daily trip frequencies and travel time. Activity diaries from 1119 respondents living in ten different neighbourhoods were collected by face-to-face interviews. A household-level structure equations model incorporating intra-household interactions is developed to analyse this data. The empirical results show that residents of different types of neighbourhoods in Beijing demonstrate significant differences in car ownership, time spent for out-of-home activities, trip rate, and travel time. Further, the characteristics of the built environment are found to have more significant impacts on the activity-travel behaviour of the male head than that of the female head.<p /> 
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SN  - 0966-6923
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.03.008
ID  - ref1
ER  -