Journal article
Commute responses to employment decentralization: Anticipated versus actual mode choice behaviors of new town employees in Kunming, China
X Yang, JE Day, BC Langford, CR Cherry, LR Jones, SS Han, J Sun
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
This study examines workers’ mode-choice responses to a typical job decentralization policy implemented in China's urban development – government job relocation (GJR) to new towns in the urban periphery. Broadly, the literature suggests that job decentralization tends to increase car commuting; however, little is known about the effects of China's GJR initiatives on individuals’ commuting mode choices. Using Kunming as a case study, this study examines how workers’ commuting mode choices have shifted in response to the GJR policy. Our study analyzes two travel survey datasets that span the job relocation process: (1) stated preference (SP) data on workers’ anticipated mode choices after a mo..
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Awarded by Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the University of Melbourne for the fieldwork funding to support RP data collection and for the generous scholarship granted to the first author. The authors would also like to acknowledge Professor He Min and the numerous students at Kunming University of Science and Technology for assisting with survey development and SP data collection. In addition, the authors would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation Ease Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) and the National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) grant 1055282 for support during SP data collection. Also, we would like to acknowledge IACP for arranging this special issue. Last but not the least, we would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments to improve our work.