Harry Timmermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Timmermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Timmermans |
| SIGNATURE | TIMMERMANS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8737-4632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 136 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 465 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 135 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
A latent class structural equation model of the relationship between travel satisfaction and overall life satisfaction controlling for satisfaction with other life domains
Improved imputation of rule sets in class association rule modeling: Application to transportation mode choice
Socio-demographics, neighborhood characteristics, time use, and leisure-time physical activity engagement patterns over the life course
Physical inactivity remains a major public health challenge today. Understanding the determinants of changes in habitual leisure-time physical activity patterns by type across the life course is important for developing targeted interventions. This study presents a multiple discrete-continuous extreme value model to examine the determinants of habitual participation in and time allocation to multiple leisure-time physical activities over the life…
Influence of Neighborhood Characteristics on Physical Activity, Health, and Quality of Life of Older Adults: A Path Analysis
Background: As life expectancy and health expenditure consumed by older people increase, maintaining a better health and quality of life for older adults has become an important social issue. Research indicates that physical activity may help address this challenge. Moreover, it is believed that improved quality of life and health benefits from physical activity can be achieved through interventions in the neighborhood environments. However, exis…
Individuals who have zero-interest in living in carsharing-facilitating neighbourhoods: A case study in the Netherlands
Carsharing-facilitating neighbourhood refers to a development scheme to combine carsharing, sustainable transportation-residential planning and housing features to promote less private car use and improve residential environments. Since this concept is new, little is known about residents’ reactions. This study focuses on the individuals who indicated zero-interest in living in such neighbourhoods to discuss the influential factors and possible i…
Residential Satisfaction in Renovated Historic Blocks in Two Chinese Cities
Previous studies of renovated Chinese historic blocks have predominantly emphasized the role of government and physical preservation of blocks, ignoring the interests of residents, although renovation directly influences their daily lives. To reduce this void in the literature, this study sets out to analyze the residential satisfaction in these blocks. Different from existing studies directly assessing the influence of residential attributes on …
Modeling dynamics in household car ownership over life courses: A latent class competing risks model
This study presents a latent class competing risks model to examine the influence of socio-demographics and life course events on car transaction behaviour. The types of car transaction and interval times between car transactions events are incorporated in a competing risk model. To capture unobserved behavioural heterogeneity across the population, the model classifies households into different segments. Results estimated based on retrospective …
Heterogeneity in physical activity participation of older adults: A latent class analysis
Participation in leisure and transport-related physical activities is generally viewed as the main means of increasing overall physical activity levels of older adults. The success of any intervention strategy depends on how well the strategy fits older people's physical activity patterns. This study therefore examines heterogeneity in physical activity patterns of older adults and the relationships between these patterns and socio-demographic an…
A comparative study of social interaction frequencies among social network members in five countries
Investigating tourist destination choice: Effect of destination image from social network members
Examining the relationship between built environment and metro ridership at station-to-station level
Non-linear asymmetric gap models of residential satisfaction: Formulation and empirical evidence
This paper proposes non-linear asymmetric gap–satisfaction models to assess the influence of the gap between aspirations and perceived residential attributes on residential satisfaction. Two variants of the residential gap are specified based on the difference and ratio between aspiration and reality. Besides the influence of residential gap, the interactions with social-demographics are incorporated in three specifications of gap–satisfaction re…
Prevalence of alternative processing rules in the formation of daily travel satisfaction in the context multi-trip, multi-stage, multi-attribute travel experiences
Carsharing: The impact of system characteristics on its potential to replace private car trips and reduce car ownership
This paper aims to explore the potential of carsharing in replacing private car trips and reducing car ownership and how this is affected by its attributes. To that affect, a stated choice experiment is conducted and the data are analyzed by latent class models in order to incorporate preference heterogeneity. The results show that around 40% of car drivers indicated that they are willing to replace some of their private car trips by carsharing, …
Understanding urban mobility patterns from a spatiotemporal perspective: Daily ridership profiles of metro stations
Modeling co-dependent choice of workplace, residence and commuting mode using an error component mixed logit model
This paper develops an error component mixed logit model to analyze the multi-dimensional residential, work and transportation mode choice. It expanse previous studies based on life-trajectory theory which predominantly only considered two life domains. In contributing to this emerging field of research, we design an integrated pivoted stated choice experiment considering the multi-dimensional choice of job, residence and transportation mode for …
Turn taking behavior in dual earner households with children: A focus on escorting routines
This article discusses results of a study on turn taking behavior in escorting children in dual-earner households. Using a multinomial logit model, the probability of different turn taking routines in escorting children is analyzed as a function of age and gender of the children, personal and household characteristics of the parents, properties of the job, and day of the week. Two types of turn taking behavior are examined. The first concerns rou…
Location Choice in the Context of Older Adults’ Leisure-Time Walking
Leisure-time walking is the most prevalent and preferred form of physical activity of older adults. In order to promote leisure-time walking and enhance the efficiency of using outdoor open spaces, the supply of different types of walking locations should match the needs, interests and preferences of older adults. However, there is limited knowledge on which location types are chosen by which groups of individuals under which conditions. This stu…
The Public’s Acceptance of and Intention to Use ICTs when Participating in Urban Planning Processes
Urban planning/management is a complex process requiring multidisciplinary technical support and public approval. With the rapid development of information and communication technology, e-participation has brought unprecedented opportunities for urban planning and management in the sense that it potentially represents more efficiently and effectively the interests of different citizens. Nevertheless, the availability of new technologies does not …
Analysis of citizens' motivation and participation intention in urban planning
Co-dependent workplace, residence and commuting mode choice: Results of a multi-dimensional mixed logit model with panel effects
Orthogonal strategy based computer-mediated negotiation: Principles and example
Previous efforts to improve stakeholders’ involvement in planning and decision-making processes mostly put planners and decision makers as the ones who decide which solution is the best for the decision problems. In bottom-up planning and decision-making processes that supposedly involve stakeholders as much as possible, the most common practice is that when stakeholders have different preferences about the decision issues, supra decision makers …
Influence of the adoption of new mobility tools on investments in home renewable energy equipment: Results of a stated choice experiment
Analysis of the impact of street-scale built environment design near metro stations on pedestrian and cyclist road segment choice: A stated choice experiment
Temporal interdependencies in mobility decisions over the life course: A household-level analysis using dynamic Bayesian networks
Analysing space-time behaviour: New approaches to old problems
Time geography had led geographers to analyse and model activity-travel patterns since the 1970s. The notion that activity-travel patterns are highly constrained has been frequently used in analytical studies and models of space-time behaviour. The popularity of this field of research lost most of its momentum in geography in the 1990s, but is now the dominant approach among civil engineers in transportation research. This paper critically review…
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems I: Cognition
In this, the first of a two-part sequence, we have first discussed some critical features of early behavioural research in geography, then traced developments following from this early research to the current period. We emphasized the early applied nature of much of this research. We have also shown how progress in the second period of growth (the 1970s) had to emphasize conceptual and theoretical aspects more than the applied. This was because f…
Consumer choice of shopping centre: An information integration approach
Timmermans H. (1982) Consumer choice of shopping centre: an information integration approach, Reg. Studies 16, 171–82. This paper is concerned with the relationships between the physical attributes of the retailing system, consumer decision-making and overt behaviour. The appropriateness of an approach, which is based on information integration theory and functional measurement, as a means of predicting consumer response to changes in physical at…
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems II: Preference and choice
Using metro smart card data to model location choice of after-work activities: An application to Shanghai
If You Pick up the Children, I'll Do the Groceries: Spatial Differences in between-Partner Interactions in out-of-Home Household Activities
While many studies have been conducted about the allocation of household duties within households, little is known about the impact of land use and accessibility on the distribution of out-of-home household tasks between spouses and about men's participation in such activities. This paper addresses this impact, while controlling for the impact of household structure, life cycle, employment status and hours, access to transport systems, and intera…
Behavioural Modelling in Geography and Planning
This book presents much new research and thinking in the field of behavioural modelling. It covers a wide range of topics and themes in different branches of the subject
Vacation length choice: A dynamic mixed multinomial logit model
Estimating social travel demand of senior citizens in the Netherlands
Analysis of citizens' motivation and participation intention in urban planning
A gap-theoretical path model of residential satisfaction and intention to move house applied to renovated historical blocks in two Chinese cities
Context Dependencies in Housing Choice Behavior
Existing experimentally based decompositional models of housing preferences and choice behavior do not account for possible substitution or context dependencies among choice alternatives. These authors seek to extend existing models by demonstrating how discrete choice experiments may be used to develop housing choice models that allow one to test for possible context dependencies. The design strategy and model specification are discussed. The mo…
Perception of urban retailing environments: An empirical analysis of consumer information and usage fields
Heterogeneity in Urban Park Use of Aging Visitors: A Latent Class Analysis
This study describes and predicts urban parks use patterns for various age groups, with specific attention to the growing group of older adults. Park use intensity of various age groups is described. Subsequently, a multinomial logit model is estimated to describe urban park choice as a function of park features, activities, and socio-demographics. To identify segments in park use patterns of aging visitors a latent class model is estimated. Data…
Cognition of Urban Retailing Structures: A Dutch Case Study
Consumer spatial choice strategies: A comparative study of some alternative behavioural spatial shopping models
Investigating tourist destination choice: Effect of destination image from social network members
Dynamics of face-to-face social interaction frequency: Role of accessibility, urbanization, changes in geographical distance and path dependence
Influence of Socio-Demographics and Residential Environment on Leisure Activity Participation
Participating in leisure activities provides important benefits for all people. However, there is a substantial reduction of (green) leisure opportunities in cities, and the green spaces that are available often are poorly accessible. The purpose of this study is to analyze the diversity of participation in various types of leisure activities and to determine the relationship between leisure activity participation and characteristics of the resid…
Group-Based versus Individual-Based Conjoint Preference Models of Residential Preferences: A Comparative Test
The conjoint preference approach, measuring individual preferences, has a long history in the study of residential decisionmaking processes. Residential choice behaviour, however, is often the result of a group decisionmaking process. In this paper we investigate whether conjoint preference models derived from group responses are different from and predict better than conventional conjoint models derived from the responses of individuals who do n…
Conjoint models of tourist portfolio choice: Theory and illustration
This article develops and tests a conjoint choice model of portfolio choice behavior. It shows how experimental design principles and discrete choice model specifications can be used to model the choice of travel portfolios. Design strategies, model formulations, and estimation methods are discussed and illustrated through use of Dutch tourists’ choices of destination and transportation for short city breaks as an example. Findings support the su…
Decisionmaking between Multiattribute Choice Alternatives: A Model of Spatial Shopping-Behaviour Using Conjoint Measurements
In this paper the authors are concerned with the application of conjoint measurement models to predict consumer choice of shopping centres. First, conjoint measurement models are discussed in the context of the development of spatial shopping-models. Next, the conceptual framework underlying the model and conjoint measurement are discussed. The second part of the paper describes an application of the methodology. Conjoint measurement is used to e…
Specification of Individual Residential Utility Functions: A Comparative Analysis of Three Measurement Procedures
This research note presents the main findings of a comparative analysis conducted to assess the validity of magnitude estimation, conjoint measurement, and functional measurement for specifying and evaluating residential utility functions. The results of the analysis suggest that all three measurement procedures may be used to evaluate an individual's evaluations of attributes of residential environments and to identify overall evaluations. In ad…
New ICTs and social interaction: Modelling communication frequency and communication mode choice
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided new ways of communicating and maintaining social networks. However, relatively little is known on the effect of ICT-use on social interaction. Therefore, this article aims to explore the factors influencing individuals’ communication frequency and choice of communication mode. The analyses are based on social interaction diary data gathered in 2008 in the Eindhoven region in the …
Spatial context and the complexity of daily travel patterns: An international comparison
A Spatial Preference Model of Regional Shopping Behaviour
Consumer spatial choice strategies: A comparative study of some alternative behavioural spatial shopping models
Spatial Choice Behaviour in Different Environmental Settings: An Application of the Revealed Preference Approach
Harry Timmermans, Spatial Choice Behaviour in Different Environmental Settings: An Application of the Revealed Preference Approach, Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Vol. 63, No. 1 (1981), pp. 57-67
Multiattribute Shopping Models and Ridge Regression Analysis
Policy decisions regarding retailing facilities essentially involve multiple attributes of shopping centres. If mathematical shopping models are to contribute to these decision processes, their structure should reflect the multiattribute character of retailing planning. Examination of existing models shows that most operational shopping models include only two policy variables. A serious problem in the calibration of the existing multiattribute s…
Behavioural Models and Spatial Planning: Some Methodological Considerations and Empirical Tests
This paper is concerned with the relevance of various geographic models of spatial shopping and residential choice behaviour to physical planning. It is argued that models relying on areal aggregation and overt spatial interaction patterns generally do not satisfy a number of methodological requirements considered extremely relevant in an applied context. In addition, it is argued that behavioural models provide a potentially more valuable approa…
The identification of factors influencing destination choice: An application of the repertory grid methodology
Cognition of Urban Retailing Structures: A Dutch Case Study
Consumer choice of shopping centre: An information integration approach
Timmermans H. (1982) Consumer choice of shopping centre: an information integration approach, Reg. Studies 16, 171–82. This paper is concerned with the relationships between the physical attributes of the retailing system, consumer decision-making and overt behaviour. The appropriateness of an approach, which is based on information integration theory and functional measurement, as a means of predicting consumer response to changes in physical at…
Perception of urban retailing environments: An empirical analysis of consumer information and usage fields
Decompositional Multiattribute Preference Models in Spatial Choice Analysis: A Review of Some Recent Developments
Decision-Making Experiments and Real-World Choice Behaviour
Decisionmaking between Multiattribute Choice Alternatives: A Model of Spatial Shopping-Behaviour Using Conjoint Measurements
In this paper the authors are concerned with the application of conjoint measurement models to predict consumer choice of shopping centres. First, conjoint measurement models are discussed in the context of the development of spatial shopping-models. Next, the conceptual framework underlying the model and conjoint measurement are discussed. The second part of the paper describes an application of the methodology. Conjoint measurement is used to e…
Modeling Choice-Set-Generating Processes via Stepwise Logit Regression Procedures: Some Empirical Results
The modeling of choice sets has gained relatively little attention so far in geography and regional science. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of the application of an exploratory model based on logit regression analysis. The findings suggest that consumer information-fields are closely related to some spatial characteristics of shopping centres
Specification of Individual Residential Utility Functions: A Comparative Analysis of Three Measurement Procedures
This research note presents the main findings of a comparative analysis conducted to assess the validity of magnitude estimation, conjoint measurement, and functional measurement for specifying and evaluating residential utility functions. The results of the analysis suggest that all three measurement procedures may be used to evaluate an individual's evaluations of attributes of residential environments and to identify overall evaluations. In ad…
Window on the Netherlands: The Fourth European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography: A Personal Impression
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Locational Choice Behaviour of Entrepreneurs: An Experimental Analysis
So far only a few studies have investigated the actual locational decision-making process of retailers. The purpose of the present article is to fill this gap. A decompositional multi-attribute preference model is used to study retailers' locational preferences under experimental conditions. It is found that accessibility, the size of a shopping centre and the presence of magnet stores are the most important factors influencing retailers' locatio…
Hybrid and non‐hybrid evaluation models for predicting outdoor recreation behavior: A test of predictive ability
This paper compares the internal validity, external validity and ease of implementation of different types of compositional, decompositional and hybrid evaluation models in the context of recreational trip behavior. The results indicate that the full‐profile conjoint measurement model outperforms the self‐explicated models, the hybrid evaluation models and the trade‐off conjoint measurement model in terms of both internal and external validity, a…
Uncovering Spatial Decision‐making Processes: A Decision Net Approach Applied to Recreational Choice Behaviour
The Spatial Transferability of a Decompositional Multiattribute Preference Model
An empirical test is made of the spatial transferability of a decompositional multiattribute preference model, in the context of spatial shopping behaviour. The model which is estimated for the city of Maastricht is used to predict shopping patterns in a part of the city of Eindhoven. The results indicate that the goodness of fit of the model reduces only slightly. This supports the assumption that decompositional preference models may be used to…
Behavioural Modelling in Geography and Planning
This book presents much new research and thinking in the field of behavioural modelling. It covers a wide range of topics and themes in different branches of the subject
A Variety Seeking Model of Spatial Choice-Behaviour
Conventional choice-models are based on the assumption of a stable utility function. Previous studies have indicated that this assumption may be less valid for certain types of choice-behaviour. In this paper the idea of variety seeking is put forward as a possible explanation for varied choice-behaviour. A model is developed and tested in the context of recreational choice-behaviour
Stated preference and choice models applied to recreation research: A review
This article discusses the use and usefulness of stated preference and choice models in recreation/leisure research. Stated preference and choice models require one to design decision experiments to study recreational and leisure decisions made in hypothetical or simulated markets. Historically, such experiments were uncommon in recreation and leisure research; therefore we pay particular attention to comparisons of the stated preference modeling…
A Review of Recent Advances in Decompositional Preference and Choice Models
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Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems II: Preference and choice
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems I: Cognition
In this, the first of a two-part sequence, we have first discussed some critical features of early behavioural research in geography, then traced developments following from this early research to the current period. We emphasized the early applied nature of much of this research. We have also shown how progress in the second period of growth (the 1970s) had to emphasize conceptual and theoretical aspects more than the applied. This was because f…
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