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The objective of this paper is to explore residential location preferences and how they are related to travel behaviour. The literature focusses on the preferences in relation to physical and demographic aspects, such as land uses, facilities, transportation facilities, transportation services, car ownership, income, household size and travel accessibility. However this study suggests social and cultural issue such as racial diversity which is literally to be a significance context. The case study reported here is based on Iskandar Malaysia's development region. Reliability Analysis and Factor Analysis are applied to determine that religious and culture are influential in terms of residential location preferences. These findings add a different perspective on travel behaviour studies, which are heavily dominated by researches from Western Europe, North America and Australasia. It is suggested that transport researchers need to reject universal conclusions and be clearer about the contexts in which their findings most applied and in multi-cultural scenarios to consider cultural and religious factors more extensively.
Author(s): Sinniah GK, Shah MZ, Vigar G, Aditjandra PT
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2014
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Pages: 223-238
Online publication date: 18/07/2014
Acceptance date: 01/02/2014
Date deposited: 05/07/2016
ISSN (print): 1970-9889
ISSN (electronic): 1970-9870
Publisher: Università di Napoli Federico II
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/2656
DOI: 10.6092/1970-9870/2656
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