Declining sustainability: The case of shopping trip energy consumption

Kitamura, R. print, Sakamoto, K. print and Waygood, O. print (2008) Declining sustainability: The case of shopping trip energy consumption. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2 (3). pp. 158-176. ISSN 1556-8318

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568310701517307

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.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:energy consumption, Osaka metropolitan region, shopping trips, urban system, sustainability
Faculty/Department:~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Environment and Technology > Centre for Transport and Society
~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Environment and Technology > Department of Planning and Architecture
~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Environment and Technology > School of the Built and Natural Environment > Centre for Transport and Society
Faculty of Environment and Technology > Department of Planning and Architecture
ID Code:10856
Deposited By: J. print Triggle
Deposited On:06 Aug 2010 10:01
Last Modified:23 Nov 2012 06:29

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