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Office locations close to Intelligent Transport Systems will become more attractive
Introduction
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) will become more popular. They are promising in terms of improving the safety and comfort of travelling. Further they have the potential to increase the throughput of traffic. With the increased popularity of ITS the amount of new transport concepts, such as automated highways, will also grow. The effect of these new ITS concepts on office location behaviour will be significant, due to improved accessibility of locations that lie close to these ITS concepts. These conclusions are drawn from the PhD thesis ‘Office location choice behaviour and Intelligent Transport Systems’ by Raffael Argiolu. He tested the possible influence of three ITS concepts: a car lane for automatic cars, an automated bus lane and a People Mover from Park and Ride on office location behaviour in the Netherlands. It is found that companies regard the automated bus as the largest contribution to accessibility of a location, whereas the car lane for automated cars is regarded as not realistic enough.
Proposition
What is the influence of Intelligent Transport Systems on office location choice behaviour?
Description
The research was carried out in two steps. The first step focused on a stated preference study among companies located in thirteen smaller cities in the Netherlands (with a population around 150.000 inhabitants). The second step was a case study to test the validty of the outcomes from the first study. The second research was conducted in two cities in the Netherlands: Arnhem and Nijmegen.
The index of the book is as follows:
Chapter 1. Research context, goal and questions
Chapter 2. Theoretical framework and methodology
Chapter 3. Using morphological analysis to define ITS concepts
Chapter 4. Data collection set-up
Chapter 5. Results of the SP/HII study
Chapter 6. Testing the predictive validity of the two models
Chapter 7. Conclusions, reflections and recommendations
Popular Summary
Contact Raffael Argiolu to obtain a free copy of the thesis 'Office Location Choice Behaviour and Intelligent Transport Systems' (limited stock of 30 copies)
Conclusions
  • ITS has a significant impact on office location behaviour;

  • Large companies prefer locations in the proximity of both car based and public transport based ITS concepts;

  • The automatic bus lane scores the highest of the three ITS concepts;

  • Governments should get involved actively in the development of ITS: currently the development of ITS technology can be mainly characterised as a ‘technology push’;

  • ITS concepts are promising in terms of improving safety, throughput of traffic and comfort of travelling.
Contact info
Raffael Argiolu, tel. +31-(0)703494389
Publication date
//2008
Project finished
//2007
Researcher
Raffael Argiolu
Article info
ISBN: 9789055840960

Document type
research
Themes
Urban Policy
Keywords
Transport and infrastructure
 


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