To attract and retain them in a region, it is necessary to have a better understanding of their fundamental spatially-related behaviors including residence, workplace, and commute choices.
In this study, we depart from a perspective of knowledge typology (analytical-synthetic-symbolic knowledge base) to investigate the heterogeneity of knowledge workers' residence, workplace, and commute choices.
Cycling is all the rage, whether as a sport, a weekend pastime or a daily commuting choice.
As smartphone usage becomes the norm, with both quick news and long-form journalism the commuting choice for many – especially the young – a widespread openness to fiction may be fading.
Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director of the Center for Science and Environment and head of the transport planning program, said the government should focus on influencing commuting choices and encouraging people to use cars less and public transportation more.
It can be observed that there is a much higher fraction of social ties whose commute mode choice are driving, which may have influenced the mode choice decision for the driving ego-subjects.
Moreover, social network is shown to influence the commute mode choice, as the likelihood of choosing a particular mode choice rises with the portion of social ties choosing that specific mode.
Figure 15 Likelihood of choosing (a) transit or (b) driving as a commute mode choice increases as the portion of social ties using the same mode choice increases.
In addition, we've observed that the likelihood of choosing either transit or driving as a commute mode choice increases with the portion of social ties choosing that particular mode choice.
The result (in Figure 15) shows that the there is a higher likelihood of the subject using the same commute mode choice with his/her ties when the portion of the ties using the particular mode choice increases within his/her social network.
