Out-of-home activities, daily travel, and subjective well-being

Ettema, Dick; Gärling, Tommy; Olsson, Lars E.; Friman, Margareta

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2010.07.005

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“…Logically, better-perceived transit options and physical activity options increase accessibility to various destinations. A better accessibility is likely linked to a higher SWT, since travel offers more options for activity participation and fulfilling basic needs (see Ettema et al 2010). The negative effect of business density may imply that high density brings about congestion and "messy" interactions among different modes of transport and hence lowers travel satisfaction.…”

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“…Overall, the hedonic approach is mainstream in well-being research and the combined use of cognitive and affective evaluations to measure well-being is usually termed subjective well-being (SWB). Travel behavior is related to SWB in two principal ways (Ettema et al 2010). First, travel allows one to participate in activities, which may contribute to one's SWB.…”

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Satisfaction with travel and residential self-selection: How do preferences moderate the impact of the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit line?

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Abstract:Policies in urban and transportation planning increasingly aim at improving residents' wellbeing. Satisfaction with travel (SWT) is a relevant component of well-being. Insight into the effect of the built environment on SWT is limited and therefore the focus of this paper. To assess this effect, a crucial issue is to what extent a relationship between the built environment and SWT is due to residential self-selection. To explore this question, a survey was held in corridors of the Twin Cities, which differed in terms of accessibility and transit options. Respondents reported their SWT, travel preferences and reasons for location choices, among other things. Using a fixed-effect model of SWT, we found that self-selection plays a significant role in explaining SWT, but that built environment characteristics also have an independent effect on SWT. Taken together this suggests that policies to build high-quality transit have a positive effect on SWT, in general, and particularly for those with a transit preference.

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Satisfaction with travel and residential self-selection: How do preferences moderate the impact of the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit line?

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“…Yet, there is an increasing interest in understanding how SWB is affected by context-specific factors such as various forms of consumption as well as quality of public goods including commuting services (Diener and Seligman 2004;Diener et al 2009). An important research question raised by Ettema et al (2010) is whether and how changes in travel context (e.g. change of travel mode, change in the level-of-service of public transport) will cause changes in SWB.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A primary aim of the present study is to investigate whether satisfaction with daily travel has either a direct positive effect on SWB or an indirect positive effect by facilitating out-ofhome activities (Ettema et al 2010). A secondary aim is to determine whether the use of the car results in a higher satisfaction with daily travel than other travel modes, either for emotional and symbolic reasons (Jakobsson Bergstad et al 2010;Steg 2005) or for instrumental reasons, due to the fact that car use facilitates performance of activities (Jakobsson 2007).…”

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Subjective well-being related to satisfaction with daily travel

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Previous research demonstrates an impact on subjective well-being (SWB) of affect associated with routine performance of out-of-home activities. A primary aim of the present study is to investigate whether satisfaction with daily travel has a positive impact on SWB, either directly or indirectly through facilitating the performance of out-of-home activities. A secondary aim is to determine whether emotional-symbolic or instrumental reasons for car use results in higher satisfaction with daily travel than other travel modes. A survey of a population-based sample of 1,330 Swedish citizens included measures of car access and use, satisfaction with daily travel, satisfaction with performance of out-of-home routine activities, and affective and cognitive SWB. The results confirmed that the effect on affective and cognitive SWB of satisfaction with daily travel is both direct and indirect via satisfaction with performance of activities. Percent weekly car use had a small effect on satisfaction with daily travel and on affective SWB, although fully mediating the effect of satisfaction with performance of the activities. This suggests that car use plays a minor role for satisfaction with daily travel and its effect on SWB. This role may be larger if investigated after a forced reduced car use.

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“…(7) Transport and wellbeing Ettema et al (2010), Olsson, Gärling et al (2011), Jakobsson Bergstad, Gamble (2011), de Vos et al (2013 Based on the concept of well-being as an overarching objective, the potential contribution of mobility is examined.…”

Section: The Travel Experience As An Evolving Research Topicmentioning

confidence: 99%