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This chapter focuses on interdependent decisions on car ownership mobility, residential choice mobility, household structure mobility, and employment/education mobility over the life course. This study represents the above interdependencies based on a multilinear utility model and make an empirical study based on data from a web-based life history survey. Each of the four mobility domains is simply described as a set of episodes. Dependent variables in the model are the duration of each episode between two consecutive changes in each mobility domain. By using the multilinear utility functions, interepisode interactions within each mobility domain and interdomain interactions are simultaneously incorporated. The survey was conducted in 2010 and 1000 households provided valid data, and may well be the first life history survey with such a large sample size and comprehensive coverage in the transportation literature. Estimation results show a competitive relationship between the duration of episodes in the same domain, while a synergistic relationship between the duration of episodes in different domains exists. Furthermore, the biographical interactions in the life course are found to be substantial, contributing almost 95 % to total household utility, implying that mobility decisions are likely to be intertwined over the life course.
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Yu, B., Zhang, J. (2017). Biographical Interactions Over the Life Course: Car Ownership, Residential Choice, Household Structure, and Employment/Education. In: Zhang, J. (eds) Life-Oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56472-0_14
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