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What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study

There is a lack of understanding of how certain characteristics of the urban environment influence an individual’s spatial cognition and familiarity with surrounding areas, and, subsequently, their travel behaviours and how these change over time. This paper aims to address this research gap in expl...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Wen, Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin, Susilo, Yusak O
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Language:English
Published: SAGE 2017
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G Geography (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4914/1/AJ%202017%20%28236%29%20What%20construct%20one%E2%80%99s%20familiar%20area.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317714798
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spelling my.uthm.eprints.49142021-12-23T08:19:59Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4914/ What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study Zhang, Wen Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin Susilo, Yusak O G Geography (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) There is a lack of understanding of how certain characteristics of the urban environment influence an individual’s spatial cognition and familiarity with surrounding areas, and, subsequently, their travel behaviours and how these change over time. This paper aims to address this research gap in exploring the dynamics of individuals’ spatial cognitions by observing the changes of respondents’ familiar areas over time, and investigating the possible determinants that constitute respondents’ familiar areas. Panel data, containing two-week travel diaries and maps of familiar areas, were collected in four different waves over a seven-month period for 55 individuals in Stockholm, Sweden. The reported familiar areas for each individual were digitised into quantifiable variable form and further analysed by applying dynamic binary probit and linear regression models. The results show that, while familiar area is largely influenced by one’s previous knowledge of the area, it is also continuously corrected by events in between. Different land use characteristics have different impacts on different social groups’ travel patterns, thus contributing to the variability in the size of one’s familiar areas. SAGE 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4914/1/AJ%202017%20%28236%29%20What%20construct%20one%E2%80%99s%20familiar%20area.pdf Zhang, Wen and Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin and Susilo, Yusak O (2017) What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. pp. 1-19. ISSN 2399-8083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317714798
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topic G Geography (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle G Geography (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Zhang, Wen
Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin
Susilo, Yusak O
What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study
description There is a lack of understanding of how certain characteristics of the urban environment influence an individual’s spatial cognition and familiarity with surrounding areas, and, subsequently, their travel behaviours and how these change over time. This paper aims to address this research gap in exploring the dynamics of individuals’ spatial cognitions by observing the changes of respondents’ familiar areas over time, and investigating the possible determinants that constitute respondents’ familiar areas. Panel data, containing two-week travel diaries and maps of familiar areas, were collected in four different waves over a seven-month period for 55 individuals in Stockholm, Sweden. The reported familiar areas for each individual were digitised into quantifiable variable form and further analysed by applying dynamic binary probit and linear regression models. The results show that, while familiar area is largely influenced by one’s previous knowledge of the area, it is also continuously corrected by events in between. Different land use characteristics have different impacts on different social groups’ travel patterns, thus contributing to the variability in the size of one’s familiar areas.
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author Zhang, Wen
Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin
Susilo, Yusak O
author_facet Zhang, Wen
Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin
Susilo, Yusak O
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title What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study
title_short What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study
title_full What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study
title_fullStr What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study
title_full_unstemmed What construct one’s familiar area? A quantitative and longitudinal study
title_sort what construct one’s familiar area? a quantitative and longitudinal study
publisher SAGE
publishDate 2017
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4914/1/AJ%202017%20%28236%29%20What%20construct%20one%E2%80%99s%20familiar%20area.pdf
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4914/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317714798
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