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Exploring the links between personal networks, time use, and the spatial distribution of social contacts

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  • José Moore
  • Juan-Antonio Carrasco
  • Alejandro Tudela

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Although the study of the role of the social context in travel behavior and activity patterns has recently gained attention, the empirical evidence supporting the relationship between social networks and the temporal and spatial characteristics of social activities is still limited. With this motivation, this paper studies the link between “longer term” (social networks) and “shorter term” (social activities) social decisions, by exploring the intertwined relationship between the individuals’ personal networks attributes, and the spatiotemporal characteristics of their daily social activities. The paper contributes to the literature by adding two key aspects to the study of the role of social networks on travel behavior: the social networks’ structure, and the spatiality of all individuals participating on the social activities. Based on data which link people’s personal networks and time use, and using a structural equation modeling approach, the paper studies the influence of individual and interactional attributes on the duration, distance, and number of people involved in social daily activities. The results show that aspects such as tie social closeness, gender and age similarity, and network density, help to understand social activity duration and distance, complementing traditional socio-demographic aspects such as income, occupation, and accessibility to services. In this way, socio-demographic attributes are not enough to explain the spatiotemporal dimension of daily activities which makes necessary to include variables related to the social context to explain with a higher level of accuracy both the duration and distance traveled to the activity. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

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  • José Moore & Juan-Antonio Carrasco & Alejandro Tudela, 2013. "Exploring the links between personal networks, time use, and the spatial distribution of social contacts," Transportation, Springer, vol. 40(4), pages 773-788, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:transp:v:40:y:2013:i:4:p:773-788
    DOI: 10.1007/s11116-013-9467-4
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