A Study of the Importance of Generalized Attributes in Shopping Choice Behaviour

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1269-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
P S McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Central City ◽  
Destination Choice ◽  
Logit Analysis ◽  
Choice Behaviour ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Shopping Area ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The research reported in this paper focuses upon the qualitative characteristics associated with a traveler's shopping activity, and examines the role which these factors have in determining destination choice behaviour. By exploiting factor analytic methods to generate a set of qualitative or generalized attribute indices, interest is centred not only upon the significance of these indices, but also upon the components of each index. With data obtained from a San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey, multinomial logit analysis is employed to estimate the model. Moreover, to identify the differential influence of generalized attributes, the model is separately estimated for suburban and central city subsamples and, in the latter case, a simultaneous destination–mode choice model is developed. The results demonstrate that generalized attributes derived from attitudinal information are significant inputs into an individual's choice of shopping area. In addition, policies which focus upon the time, safety, and parking availability components vis-à-vis comfort aspects of the shopping excursion will be more effective in obtaining desired changes in the existing pattern of travel.

Trip Generation and Parking Requirements in Traditional Shopping Districts

1998 ◽  
Vol 1617 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth L. Steiner
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Trip Generation ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
Shopping Area ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
Daily Rate ◽  
New Urbanist

The New Urbanists assume that if you build a village center or Main Street-style retail businesses in the middle of a residential neighborhood, it will, among other things, reduce the level of automobile usage. Based on the claim of reduced automobile travel, advocates suggest that parking requirements and transportation impact fees should similarly be reduced. Although it would be ideal to test these claims using New Urbanist development, current developments lack well-established retail businesses. Thus, this study considers these claims of the New Urbanists using six prototypical traditional shopping districts in the Oakland-Berkeley subarea of the San Francisco Bay Area. Each of these districts is surrounded by residential areas of moderately high density [between 5.3 and 8.5 persons per hectare (13–21 persons per gross acre)] and middle-class residents. These shopping areas vary in scale and mix of businesses covering the range of sizes and types espoused by the New Urbanists. The trip generation rates and parking needs for each of these prototypical shopping areas are calculated and compared with ITE-based rates for both an average hour and a daily rate. Based on these comparisons, a conclusion is reached that the claims of the New Urbanists for reduced parking and transportation fees cannot be wholeheartedly supported if the needs of the neighborhood are to be considered. Although many customers walk to these shopping areas, the trips by modes other than automobile are offset by a higher overall level of activity in the shopping area.

Using Segmentation Approaches for Better Prediction and Understanding from Consumer Mode Choice Models

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran S. Currim
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
Probabilistic Choice ◽  
Bay Area

The diagnostic and predictive efficacy of market segmentation and the relative power of two segmentation schemes (benefit and situational) are investigated by using a market share probabilistic choice model (LOGIT) as a dependent variable. The model relates consumer perceptions of several alternatives on various characteristics to discrete choice and is estimated first for the entire sample and then for each of the benefit and situational market segments. Empirical findings derived from data on consumers’ transportation preferences, perceptions, and choices in the San Francisco Bay area suggest that the models provide fairly accurate estimates of market share and that using the segmentation concept affords diagnostic and predictive advantages.

scholarly journals Feasible Activity and Travel Time Allocations with a Discrete Choice Model: An Exploratory Study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Chen
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Area Estimation ◽  
Bay Area

An exploratory study using a discrete choice framework for time-use allocations is described. Instead of treating time use as continuous and dependent, it is treated as discrete and independent. By doing this, the restriction that the consumption bundle must lie on the boundary of the budget set can be enforced. Using responses collected from the 1996 travel survey for the San Francisco Bay Area, estimation of the model results is a good fit in terms of adjusted R2. This suggests that a discrete choice framework of time allocation to activities and travel is a worthwhile effort that certainly needs further investigation.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area

The “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Wide Acceptance

In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japanese stagiaires to French restaurants in Europe and the United States encouraged a series of changes that I am calling the “Japanese turn,” which found chefs at fine-dining establishments in Los Angeles, New York City, and later the San Francisco Bay Area using an ever-widening array of Japanese ingredients, employing Japanese culinary techniques, and adding Japanese dishes to their menus. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the wide acceptance of not only Japanese ingredients and techniques but also concepts like umami (savory tastiness) and shun (seasonality) suggest that Japanese cuisine is now well known to many American chefs.

Cyborg Jotería Pedagogies: Latinx Drag Queens Leveraging Communication Ecologies in the Age of the Digital and Social Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
José Ramón Lizárraga ◽  
Arturo Cortez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Drag Queens

Researchers and practitioners have much to learn from drag queens, specifically Latinx queens, as they leverage everyday queerness and brownness in ways that contribute to pedagogy locally and globally, individually and collectively. Drawing on previous work examining the digital queer gestures of drag queen educators (Lizárraga & Cortez, 2019), this essay explores how non-dominant people that exist and fluctuate in the in-between of boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, the physical, and the virtual provide pedagogical overtures for imagining and organizing for new possible futures that are equitable and just. Further animated by Donna Haraway’s (2006) influential feminist post-humanist work, we interrogate how Latinx drag queens as cyborgs use digital technologies to enhance their craft and engage in powerful pedagogical moves. This essay draws from robust analyses of the digital presence of and interviews with two Latinx drag queens in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the online presence of a Xicanx doggie drag queen named RuPawl. Our participants actively drew on their liminality to provoke and mobilize communities around socio-political issues. In this regard, we see them engaging in transformative public cyborg jotería pedagogies that are made visible and historicized in the digital and physical world.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document