Meet me halfway
Disentangling the factors affecting leisure joint destination choice
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2024-08
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How far are you literally willing to go to meet your friends and loved ones? Our study breaks down the different factors that influence leisure destination choice between pairs of socially connected people - friends, family, acquaintances. Using a novel dataset of self-reported frequently visited leisure destinations in Zurich, Switzerland, we estimate two joint destination choice models that in addition to joint travel impedance and zonal attractiveness, explicitly consider relationship attributes, such as relationship length, relationship strength or gender homophily. Results suggest that the impact of travel distances on utility differ considerably for home visits and out-of-home leisure, with the marginal disutility of travel being more than three times larger for out-of-home leisure for some pairs. At the same time, we show that the disutility of travel is mitigated by stronger and longer relationships, suggesting a higher willingness to travel further to meet with strong social ties. These results provide new insights on the behavioral mechanism behind joint activities, a subject that has been gaining attention in recent years. Such behavioral insights are not only important to improve the behavioral realism of activity-based models but have the potential of being incorporated in agent-based representations of such models.
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1892
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IVT, ETH Zurich
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Destination choice; Social networks; Leisure travel; Joint destination choice
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03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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