ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the degree to which both classical socio-demographic variables and mobility styles in leisure make a significant contribution towards explaining variance in traffic behaviour. It reviews analytical research on travel behaviour on mobility and lifestyle. The chapter presents a Swiss study on leisure traffic and lifestyle in urban areas. It focuses on the main findings concerning the two goals, analytical and practical in relation to sustainable leisure mobility. The objective of transportation research is to understand, describe and model choices of travel distances and modes of transport and destination that people make during their everyday lives. Lifestyles can be understood as latent constructs comprising individuals' attitudes, values and orientations. Social stratification and pluralisation refer to unequally distributed resources within a social system. Neighbourly Home-Lovers (HOME) values family and security and is mainly characterised by a domestic and neighbourly orientation.
