Abstract There is an extensive literature on relationships between the built environment and travel, but the vast majority of such studies rely solely on statistical analyses of available travel survey data, with limited possibilities for demonstrating causality. This article presents findings from a methodologically novel study drawing on a combination of a tailor-made questionnaire survey and in-depth qualitative interviews, including cross-sectional as well as longitudinal analyses. Our mixed-methods approach offers stronger evidence of causal influences than in most previous studies on the built environment and travel. We illuminate such relationships in two metropolitan areas differing considerably in their size and urban structure: the relatively monocentric Norwegian capital Oslo and the smaller, predominantly polycentric Stavanger area. The study encompasses travel distances and modes for both commuting and intra-metropolitan non-work purposes. The paper thus offers a comparison of the influences of built environment characteristics on travel across metropolitan contexts as well as for different travel purposes.

中文翻译：

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两个不同规模、不同中心结构的城区的居住位置、通勤和非工作出行

摘要 有大量关于建筑环境与旅行之间关系的文献，但绝大多数此类研究仅依赖于对可用旅行调查数据的统计分析，证明因果关系的可能性有限。本文介绍了一项方法上新颖的研究结果，该研究结合了量身定制的问卷调查和深入的定性访谈，包括横断面分析和纵向分析。我们的混合方法方法提供了比以往大多数关于建筑环境和旅行的研究更有力的因果影响证据。我们阐明了两个在规模和城市结构上有很大差异的大都市区的这种关系：相对单一的挪威首都奥斯陆和较小的、主要是多中心的斯塔万格地区。该研究包括通勤和大都市内非工作目的的旅行距离和方式。因此，本文对建筑环境特征对跨大都市环境以及不同旅行目的的旅行的影响进行了比较。