ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme
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Abstract
Over the last few decades, the motives and determinants of individual travel behaviour have been analysed from different perspectives. Whereas the main approach explains personal mobility due to the travellers' sociodemographics and the generalised costs of travel, travel behaviour research has added several more complex analysis directions such as role patterns, household interactions, time budgets, activity planning, life styles, etc. This working paper addresses a further possible determinant to help us understand travel behaviour, this being the size and structure of social networks. Recognising the ongoing pluralisation and differentiation within society, it seems crucial to investigate social realities to understand traveller behaviour in greater detail. This study develops a concept, which allows us to explore the relationship between social networks and (leisure) travel. Several mappings of interviewees ́ network geographies will be combined with their related transcribed mobility biography interviews, to explain different cases of mobility patterns
