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- ItemBuilt-environment features affecting travel behaviour in Buffalo City Municipality(2020-12) September, Freddie; Geyer, H S; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A substantial body of literature finds that changes in neighbourhood or built-environment characteristics are associated with different aspects of travel behaviour, including mode choice and total number of trips. This paper focuses on the character of neighbourhoods and how it relates to the frequency of their residents’ travel and by which mode. Multivariate regression models incorporating factor analysis and cluster analysis were applied to a set of 25 variables to examine the association between travel behaviour and the built-environment in South Africa. Our analysis demonstrates that built environment variables are important predictors of mode choices such as auto usage (private motor vehicles) and transit usage (minibus taxi/train/bus), but not for walking all the way to the workplace or cycling. Furthermore, the total number of trips are influenced more by socio-economic variables such as high income than by built-environment characteristics.