Traditional „homogenous behavioural groups“: still valid analysing-tool or scientific anachronism?

Kurzfassung

Models of behaviour have the aim to build up reality in a simplified way. A good model is characterized by the possibility to picture human behaviour in the real world with some few determinants in the model. The concept of homogenous behavioural groups dating from the 1970ies offers such a reduction of complexity. The present article tries a first approach to answer the question if this concept is also valid in 2002 using data from the year 2002 survey “Mobilitaet in Deutschland” (“Mobility in Germany”). The intention is to identify general behaviour patterns in the transportation system and to evaluate these patterns with socio-demographic and socio-economic variables against the background of the traditional concept of homogenous behavioural groups.