Consumer Travel Patterns and the Concept of Range 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8376552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W A V Clark (0000-0003-4944-1926, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 386-396 |
| Publication date | 1968-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1968.tb00651.x |
| OpenAlex | W2171801383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
An aspect of Central Place Theory—the range of a good—is examined for a variety of business centers within a city. The study is concerned with understanding the orderliness of consumer spatial behavior. Specifically two hypotheses are tested. One, that consumers purchase goods and services at the nearest centers offering these goods and services. Two, that there is not a significant difference in the distances travelled for the same good or service from different sizes of centers. The results of the tests emphasize that less than half of the sample of consumers examined go to the nearest center, and that consumers do travel significantly greater distances to the central business district and to larger centers. It is suggested that the nearest center hypothesis and the concept of range require modification to take into account the fact that consumers do travel farther than is essential to purchase goods and services
Advertising · Business · Center (category theory) · Economics · Economy · Geography · Goods and services · Orderliness · Physics · Range (aeronautics) · Sample (material) · Service (business) · Statistics · Variety (cybernetics) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies · Engineering · Marketing · Mathematics · Psychology
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Models of Intra-Urban Consumer Behavior and Their Implications for Central Place Theory
The Concept of Choice and Cognitive Explanations of Spatial Behavior
Toward Dynamic Models of Traveller Behavior and Point Patterns of Traveller Origins
A Contextual Theory of Demand
Spatial Choice in Consumer Behavior
Tourism
Retail productivity
Going the extra mile
Measuring the Cognitive Levels of Urban Residents
Retail facilities in Colorado boomtowns
Outshopping from a British new town
Choice modeling of grocery shopping behavior
Building Community Resiliency
Shopping Patterns of Suburbanites
Consumer Shopping Behaviour in a Planned Urban Environment
Cognition of Urban Retailing Structures
The Nature of Consumer Usage Fields in an Urban Environment
Preference and Perception an Analysis of Consumer Behaviour
Shopping Behavior in Two Sets of Shopping Destinations
An Analysis of Multistop Grocery Shopping Trips
People, Place, and Region
A Century of Method-Oriented Scholarship in the Annals
A Note on the Central Place Theory
Spatial Flows and Competing Central Places
Space-Time Budgets and Activity Studies in Urban Geography and Planning
A Central-Place Model as a Two-Level Location-Allocation System
Chain Image and Store-Choice Modeling
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2023 (54) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |