JTLU Volume 2, No. 1 (2009)
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Table of Contents:
Access, Aging, and Impairments Part A: Impairments and Behavioral Responses, pp. 1-2
Access to Public Transit and Its Infuence on Ridership for Older Adults in Two U.S. Cities, pp. 3-27
Mode Choice of Older People Before and After Shopping, pp. 29-46
Determinants of Residential Location Decisions among the Pre-Elderly in Central Ohio, pp. 47-64
The Challenge of Using Public Transport: Descriptions by People with Cognitive Functional Limitations, pp. 65-80
Book Review: Urban Structure Matters, pp. 81-83
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Item Access, Aging, and Impairments Part A: Impairments and Behavioral Responses(Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Schmöcker, Jan-DirkThis article introduces vol. 2, no. 1 issue of Journal of Transport and Land Use.Item Access to Public Transit and Its Infuence on Ridership for Older Adults in Two U.S. Cities(Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Hess, Daniel BaldwinGrowth in the population of older adults (age 60 and above) in coming years will challenge urban planners and transportation managers to provide travel options that support autonomy. To investigate barriers that older adults experience in using public transit, this research explores associations between older adults who do and do not ride fixed-route public transit and their neighborhood walking access to buses and trains. The research tests whether or not the distance between a trip origin or destination and a transit stop or station is a significant factor in predicting frequency of transit ridership. Data from a survey of older adults in California and New York is used to regress older adults’ frequency of riding public transit against explanatory variables, including demographic and socioeconomic variables, access and mobility measures, and neighborhood characteristics. Findings suggest that self-reported walking distance to transit has a statistically significant influence—in San José, California, but not in Buffalo, New York—in predicting transit ridership frequency. Drivers are more sensitive to walking distance than nondrivers. Models estimate that in San José, each additional five minutes in perceived walking time to transit decreases transit ridership frequency by five percent for nondrivers and by 25 percent for drivers. Older adults are likely to ride transit more often if they are male, nonwhite, and low income.Item Mode Choice of Older People Before and After Shopping(Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Su, Fengming; Schmöcker, Jan-Dirk; Bell, Michael G.H.With the population aging in many countries, older people’s travel is recently getting more attention in the transportation literature. However our understanding of factors influencing their mode choice is still limited. In this research the focus is on mode choice for shopping trips as these are the most frequent trips of older people. The study is not limited to trips to the shopping centre, but investigates the combined mode choice of trips to and from the shop in order to understand also which factors influence mode changes. Two types of models - the multinomial logit (MNL) and the nested logit (NL) - are fitted to data from the London Area Travel Survey. The nesting structure is used to test the correlation in mode choice before and after shopping. A particular focus of the models is on the importance of accessibility variables such as bus and rail stop density and service quality for specific areas of London. The results show that mode choice combinations such as “walk to shop and take the bus back” are not as frequent as sometimes thought and that bus stop density is of more significance to older people than attributes describing the quality of the bus services like service frequency.Item Determinants of Residential Location Decisions among the Pre-Elderly in Central Ohio(Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Morrow-Jones, Hazel A.; Kim, Moon JeongThis paper examines the differences and similarities in residential movement patterns and motivations between young households (under 50), pre-elderly households (50 through 64) and elderly households (65 and over). We use deed transfer records and a survey of home owners who moved between late 2004 and early 2006 in Franklin County, the central county of the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area. The patterns are mapped and the motivations and household characteristics are explored through descriptive analysis and discriminant analysis. Most expectations are supported and the pre-elderly are seen to be a distinct group with some similarities to each of the other two age cohorts, but also some unique characteristics and interests.Item The Challenge of Using Public Transport: Descriptions by People with Cognitive Functional Limitations(Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Rosenkvist, Jenny; Risser, Ralf; Iwarsson, Susanne; Wendel, Kerstin; Ståhl, AgnetaThis paper describes the findings of a study aiming to achieve deeper insight into reasons people with cognitive functional limitations cease to use public transport. Semi-structured interviews in combination with a qualitative content analysis were performed with nine participants. The results showed that reasons not to use public transport were to some degree a usability problem—both real and imagined. Other reasons were that participants had changed from buses or trains to other modes of transport or had psychologically adapted themselves to a new situation which meant that they did not miss using public transport.Item Book Review: Urban Structure Matters(Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2009) Chen, XuemingThe author reviews the book Urban Structure Matters by Petter Naess (Routledge, 2006).