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Declining sustainability: The case of shopping trip energy consumption

Kitamura, Ryuichi; Sakamoto, Kyotaro; Waygood, Owen

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Authors

Ryuichi Kitamura

Kyotaro Sakamoto

Owen Waygood



Abstract

As typical shopping behavior changed from foot-based visits to neighborhood shopping streets or corner grocery stores to auto-based visits to large-scale retail stores, shopping trip energy consumption increased substantially in the Osaka metropolitan area between 1970 and 2000. Underlying this phenomenon are, among others, progress of motorization, declining household size, and diminishing households with a homemaker. The effects of these and other factors are examined through an analysis of variance of large-scale household travel survey data from 1970 and 2000. It is shown that changes in demographics and socioeconomics alone would not have produced the observed magnitude of increase in shopping trip energy consumption. The more substantial contributor has been structural change, which has presumably been caused by the urban system adjusting its elements—land use, transportation networks, facility location, retail systems, and so forth—to adapt to increased ownership and use of the automobile. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Citation

Kitamura, R., Sakamoto, K., & Waygood, O. (2008). Declining sustainability: The case of shopping trip energy consumption. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2(3), 158-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568310701517307

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2008
Deposit Date Aug 6, 2010
Publicly Available Date Dec 2, 2016
Journal International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
Print ISSN 1556-8318
Electronic ISSN 1556-8334
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2
Issue 3
Pages 158-176
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/15568310701517307
Keywords energy consumption, Osaka metropolitan region, shopping trips, urban system, sustainability
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1011273
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568310701517307

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