The determinants of shopping duration on workdays in the Netherlands

While many studies of the duration of shopping episodes have considered the impact of sociodemographic variables, such as gender or income, few if any have considered spatial variation in the duration of shopping activities. This paper reports a study seeking to establish how the duration of shopping episodes varies with characteristics of the built environment in addition to other factors that are claimed to influence the duration of shopping episodes––temporal constraints, the monetary budget available and the activity/travel context of the shopping activity. The data used are derived from w... Mehr ...