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Modeling residential sorting effects to understand the impact of the built environment on commute mode choice 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:3
Abdul Rawoof Pinjari Ram M. Pendyala Chandra R. Bhat Paul A. Waddell 《Transportation》2007,34(5):557-573
This paper presents an examination of the significance of residential sorting or self selection effects in understanding the
impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use and transportation system attributes are often treated as exogenous
variables in models of travel behavior. Such models ignore the potential self selection processes that may be at play wherein
households and individuals choose to locate in areas or built environments that are consistent with their lifestyle and transportation
preferences, attitudes, and values. In this paper, a simultaneous model of residential location choice and commute mode choice
that accounts for both observed and unobserved taste variations that may contribute to residential self selection is estimated
on a survey sample extracted from the 2000 San Francisco Bay Area household travel survey. Model results show that both observed
and unobserved residential self selection effects do exist; however, even after accounting for these effects, it is found
that built environment attributes can indeed significantly impact commute mode choice behavior. The paper concludes with a
discussion of the implications of the model findings for policy planning.
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Paul A. WaddellEmail: |
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Children’s mode choice for the school trip: the role of distance and school location in walking to school 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Noreen C. McDonald 《Transportation》2008,35(1):23-35
Rising levels of childhood obesity in the United States and a 75% decline in the proportion of children walking to school
in the past 30 years have focused attention on school travel. This paper uses data from the US Department of Transportation’s
2001 National Household Travel Survey to analyze the factors affecting mode choice for elementary and middle school children.
The analysis shows that walk travel time is the most policy-relevant factor affecting the decision to walk to school with
an estimated direct elasticity of −0.75. If policymakers want to increase walking rates, these findings suggest that current
policies, such as Safe Routes to School, which do not affect the spatial distribution of schools and residences will not be
enough to change travel behavior. The final part of the paper uses the mode choice model to test how a land use strategy—community
schools—might affect walking to school. The results show that community schools have the potential to increase walking rates
but would require large changes from current land use, school, and transportation planning practices.
Noreen C. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how the environment affects children’s travel behavior. 相似文献
Noreen C. McDonaldEmail: |
Noreen C. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how the environment affects children’s travel behavior. 相似文献
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What neighborhood are you in? Empirical findings of relationships between household travel and neighborhood characteristics 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In recent years, there have been studies of the influence of neighborhood or built environment characteristics on residential
location choice and household travel behavior. Interestingly, there is no uniform definition of neighborhood in the literature
and the definition is often vague. This paper presents an alternative way of defining neighborhood and neighborhood type,
which involves innovative usage of public data sources. Furthermore, the paper investigates the interaction between neighborhood
environment and household travel in the US. A neighborhood here is spatially identical to a census tract. A neighborhood type
identifies a group of neighborhoods with similar neighborhood socio-economic, demographic, and land use characteristics. This
is accomplished by performing log-likelihood clustering on the Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP) 2000 data. Five
household travel measures, i.e., number of trips per household, mode share, average travel distance and time per trip, and
vehicle miles of travel (VMT), are then compared across the resulting 10 neighborhood types, using the 2001 National Household
Travel Survey (NHTS) household and trip files. It is found that household life cycle status and residential location are not
independent. Transit availability at place of residence tends to increase the transit mode share regardless of household automobile
ownership and income level, and job-housing trade-offs are evident when mobility is not of concern. The study also reveals
racial preference in residential location and contrasting travel characteristics among ethnic groups.
Dr. Jie Lin (Jane) is an assistant professor in Department of Civil and Materials Engineering and a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is focused on transportation demand analysis, data mining, and transportation sustainability in private, freight, and public transportation systems. Dr. Liang Long received a Doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) from Tongji University. She is currently with Cambridge Systematics as a transportation modeler with expertise in travel demand forecasting, geographic information systems (GIS) and market research. 相似文献
Liang LongEmail: |
Dr. Jie Lin (Jane) is an assistant professor in Department of Civil and Materials Engineering and a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is focused on transportation demand analysis, data mining, and transportation sustainability in private, freight, and public transportation systems. Dr. Liang Long received a Doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) from Tongji University. She is currently with Cambridge Systematics as a transportation modeler with expertise in travel demand forecasting, geographic information systems (GIS) and market research. 相似文献
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Over the past few years, GPS has been used in a number of surveys in the US to assess the accuracy of household travel surveys.
The results have been somewhat alarming in that most of these exercises have shown that the standard trip-based CATI survey
conducted in the US under-reports travel by about 20–25%. It was decided to use GPS to assess the accuracy of the Sydney Household
Travel Survey, a continuous survey conducted by face-to-face interviewing. The procedure used was for the interviewers to
recruit households for the household travel survey in the normal manner, and then, if the household met certain criteria,
to endeavour to recruit the household to also undertake a GPS survey. A small sample of about 50 households was obtained,
and GPS devices successfully retrieved that measured data on the same day as the travel diary was completed. In addition,
participants in the GPS survey completed a prompted recall survey a week or two later, using maps and tabulations of travel
obtained from the GPS devices, to identify mode, purpose and occupancy for trips measured by the GPS, and also to check for
accuracy in defining trip ends and total number of trips. Based on the analysis of the GPS compared to the diary results,
it was found that respondents under-reported their travel by about 7%, which is much less than in the US CATI results. Respondents
were also found to under-report travel distances and over-report travel times. There was also a high incidence of non-reporting
for VKT.
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Peter StopherEmail: |
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The impact of urban form on automobile travel: disentangling causation from correlation 总被引:5,自引:3,他引:2
A longstanding question within the field of transportation demand management is the strength of the relationship between urban
form and mobility behavior. Although several studies have identified a strong correlation between these variables, there is
as yet scant evidence to support policy interventions that target land use as a means of influencing travel. To the contrary,
some of the more recent research has cast skepticism on the proposition that the relationship is causative, recognizing the
possibility that households endogenously self-select themselves into communities that support their preferences for particular
transportation modes. Focusing on individual automobile travel, the present study seeks to contribute to this line of inquiry
by estimating econometric models on a panel of travel-diary data collected in Germany between 1996 and 2003. Specifically,
we employ the two-part model (2PM)—a procedure involving probit and OLS estimators—to assess the determinants of the discrete
decision to use the car and the continuous decision of distance traveled. Beyond modeling variables that capture the urban
form features that are commonly suggested to influence mobility behavior, including mixed use and public transit, this study
employs instrumental variables to control for potential endogeneity emerging from the simultaneity of residential and mode
choices. Unlike much of the work to date, our results suggest that urban form has a causative impact on car use, a finding
that is robust to alternative econometric specifications.
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Ralf HedelEmail: |
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In auto-oriented communities, access to an automobile is essential for good mobility, but not everyone owns a car or is able
to drive. Little is known about how individuals in these circumstances might still use vehicles for transportation. To provide
insight on the nature of vehicle use by those with potentially limited vehicle access, we present qualitative findings from
focus groups with recent Mexican immigrants living in California, half of whom owned no cars. Our results demonstrate varying
degrees of participants’ access to vehicle travel not always corresponding to auto ownership, with extensive sharing of cars,
borrowing of cars, and getting rides. We describe the different dimensions of vehicle access that participants experienced
and identify specific factors that seemed to influence their access levels. We discuss the implications of our findings for
transportation policy and future research.
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Susan HandyEmail: |
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This contribution presents theoretical considerations concerning the connections between life situation, lifestyle, choice
of residential location and travel behaviour, as well as empirical results of structural equation models. The analyses are
based on data resulting from a survey in seven study areas in the region of Cologne. The results indicate that lifestyles
influence mode choice, although slightly, even when life situation is controlled for. The influence of life situation on mode
choice exceeds the influence of lifestyle. The influence that lifestyle, and in part also life situation, has on mode choice
is primarily mediated by specific location attitudes and location decisions that influence mode choice, respectively. Here
objective spatial conditions as well as subjective location attitudes are important.
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Joachim ScheinerEmail: |
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Using latent class cluster analysis, this paper investigates the spatial, social, demographic, and economic determinants of
immigrants’ joint distribution among travel time, mode choice, and departure time for work using the 2000 Census long form
data. Through a latent tree structure analysis, age, residential location, immigration stage, gender, personal income, and
race are found to be the primary determinants in the workplace commute decision-making process. By defining several relatively
homogeneous population segments, the likelihood of falling into each segment is found to differ across age groups and geography,
with different indicators affecting each group differentially. This analysis complements past studies that used regression
models to investigate socio-demographic indicators and their impact on travel behavior in two distinct ways: (a) analysis
is done by considering travel time, mode choice, and departure time for work simultaneously, and (b) heterogeneity in behavior
is accounted for using methods that identify different groups of behavior and then their determinants. Conclusively the method
here is richer than many other methods used to study the ethnically diverse population of California and shows the addition
of geographic location and latent segment identification to greatly improve our understanding of specific behaviors. It also
provides evidence that immigrants are as diverse as the non-immigrant population and transportation policies need to be defined
accordingly.
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Konstadinos G. GouliasEmail: |
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Annual electric bike (e-bike) sales in China grew from 40,000 in 1998 to 10 million in 2005. This rapid transition from human-powered
bicycles, buses and gasoline-powered scooters to an all-electric vehicle/fuel technology system is special in the evolution
of transportation technology and, thus far, unique to China. We examine how and why e-bikes developed so quickly in China
with particular focus on the key technical, economic, and political factors involved. This case study provides important insights
to policy makers in China and abroad on how timely regulatory policy can change the purchase choice of millions and create
a new mode of transportation. These lessons are especially important to China as it embarks on a large-scale transition to
personal vehicles, but also to other countries seeking more sustainable forms of transportation.
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Christopher CherryEmail: |
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The influence of built environment to the trends in commuting journeys in the Netherlands 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In this paper we describe commuting trends in the Netherlands in the past decade and examine the influence of urban form and
travel accessibility on commuting journeys over time on the basis of data from the Dutch National Travel Survey. Exploratory
analysis is performed to identify changes in commuting participation, departure time, commuting time, commuting distance and
the modal split. Regression analysis and choice models are used to examine the influence of the built environment on commuting
parameters over time. The results indicate that urban form has consistently influenced the parameters of commuting journey
in the Netherlands in the last 10 years. However, the trend of the influence is unique for each commuting model. Some influences
have become less significant in the last decade and some have become stronger.
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Kees MaatEmail: |
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Studying travel-related individual assessments and desires by combining hierarchically structured ordinal variables 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Ordinal measures are frequently encountered in travel behavior research. This paper presents a new method for combining them
when a hierarchical structure of the data can be presumed. This method is applied to study the subjective assessment of the
amount of travel by different transportation modes among a group of French clerical workers, along with the desire to increase
or decrease the use of such modes. Some advantages of this approach over traditional data reduction technique such as factor
analysis when applied to ordinal data are then illustrated. In this study, combining evidence from several variables sheds
light on the observed moderately negative relationship between the personal assessment of the amount of travel and the desire
to increase or decrease it, thus integrating previous partial (univariate) results. We find a latent demand for travel, thus
contributing to clarify the behavioral mechanisms behind the induced traffic phenomenon. Categorizing the above relationship
by transportation mode shows a desire for a less environmental-friendly mix of modes (i.e., a greater desire to use heavy
motorized modes and a lower desire to use two-wheeled modes), whenever the respondents do not feel to travel extensively.
This result, combined with previous theoretical investigations concerning the determinants of the desire to alter trips consumption
levels, shows the importance of making people aware of how much they travel.
Marco Diana is a permanent researcher working at the Department of Hydraulics, Transport and Civil Infrastructures of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests include the study of innovative forms of public transport services and the analysis of multimodality behaviors. Tingting Song is a Scientific Programmer at The Rockefeller University, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Core, New York, NY, USA. She works on algorithms for non-parametric methods and their applications in medical research. She maintains the muStat package on CRAN.r-project.org and the Web server on muStat.rockefeller.edu. Knut M. Wittkowski is a Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University and Head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at its Center for Clinical and Translational Science, New York, NY, USA. His research focuses on methods, meta data, and user interfaces to integrate nonparametric statistics into research and decision support systems. 相似文献
Knut M. WittkowskiEmail: |
Marco Diana is a permanent researcher working at the Department of Hydraulics, Transport and Civil Infrastructures of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests include the study of innovative forms of public transport services and the analysis of multimodality behaviors. Tingting Song is a Scientific Programmer at The Rockefeller University, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Core, New York, NY, USA. She works on algorithms for non-parametric methods and their applications in medical research. She maintains the muStat package on CRAN.r-project.org and the Web server on muStat.rockefeller.edu. Knut M. Wittkowski is a Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University and Head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at its Center for Clinical and Translational Science, New York, NY, USA. His research focuses on methods, meta data, and user interfaces to integrate nonparametric statistics into research and decision support systems. 相似文献
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In most developed countries motorized transportation is the dominant form of travel for long and short journeys. Transport-related
physical activity (TPA), however, is advocated as an appropriate transport mode for traveling short distances. The purpose
of this study is to explore the associations between private automobile availability, overall physical activity levels, and
TPA engagement in the adult population. A population-representative telephone survey assessed socio-demographics, private
automobile availability, overall physical activity levels, and travel to place of work/study and the convenience shop with
an adult sample (n = 2,000) residing in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand in April 2005. The majority of respondents reported unrestricted
(80%) or frequent (12%) private automobile availability. After controlling for covariates, binary logistic regression analyses
revealed those with no private automobile available were less likely to be classified as sufficiently active for health benefits
when compared to respondents with unrestricted private automobile availability. However, this finding was based on a small
minority (4%). Also, those reporting no private automobile availability were more likely to walk or cycle to place of employment
and the convenience shop when compared to those with unrestricted private automobile availability. Similar to other self-report
travel and physical activity survey tools, the questionnaire used potentially did not adequately capture TPA engagement. Future
TPA research needs to incorporate objective measures to address this issue.
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Hannah M. BadlandEmail: |
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Understanding of the activity-travel patterns of children is becoming increasingly important to various policy makers. Further,
there is also a growing recognition that intra-household interactions need to be explicitly accommodated in travel models
for realistic forecasts and policy evaluation. In the light of these issues, this paper contributes towards an overall understanding
of the school-travel behavior of children and the related interdependencies among the travel patterns of parents and children.
An econometric model is formulated to simultaneously determine the choice of mode and the escorting person for children’s
travel to and from school. The 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) data are used in the model estimation process.
Empirical results indicate that the characteristics of child like age, gender, and ethnicity, and employment and work flexibility
characteristics of the parents have strong impacts on the mode choice decisions. In addition, the impacts of some of these
attributes on the choice of mode to school are different from the corresponding impacts on the choice of mode from school. The distance between home and school is found to strongly and negatively impact the choice of walking to and from
school, with the impact being stronger for walking to school. Several land-use and built-environment variables were explored,
but were found not to be statistically significant predictors.
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Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan (Corresponding author)Email: |
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The ever-increasing use of cars is a big problem in metropolitan areas. To manage the traffic stream and alleviate air pollution,
most metropolitan governments are attempting to discourage the use of cars. Nevertheless, the results have not been satisfactory.
It is well known that normal-choice riders choose their travel mode based on utility, which is determined by mode-specific
impedances and individual characteristics. On the other hand, this study focuses on identifying car-dependent commuters who
tend to keep driving cars regardless of the circumstances they are confronted with. For this study, psychometric factors characterizing
car-dependent commuters were investigated. However, the performance of the mode-choice model was not sufficiently enhanced
despite incorporation of the psychometric factors. The performance improved considerably when the car-dependent commuters
were excluded. Based on psychometric factors, the support vector machine successfully separated the car-dependent commuters
from normal-choice riders.
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Keemin SohnEmail: |
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The rapid and continuing changes in travel and mobility needs in India over the last decade necessitates the development and
use of dynamic models for travel demand forecasting rather than cross-sectional models. In this context, this paper investigates
mode choice dynamics among workers in Chennai city, India over a period of five years (1999–2004). Dynamics in mode choice
is captured at four levels: exogenous variable change, state-dependence, changes in users’ sensitivity to attributes, and
unobserved error terms. The results show that the dynamic models provide a substantial improvement (of over 500 log-likelihood
points and ρ2 increases from 44% to 68%) over the cross-sectional model. The performance was compared using two illustrative policy scenarios
with important methodological and practical implications. The results indicate that cross-sectional models tend to provide
inflated estimates of potential improvement measures. Improving the Level of Service (LOS) alone will not produce the anticipated
benefits to transit agencies, as it fails to overcome the persistent inertia captured in the state-dependence factors. The
results and models have important applications in the context of growing motorization and congestion management in developing
countries.
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P. BhargaviEmail: |
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Do changes in neighborhood characteristics lead to changes in travel behavior? A structural equations modeling approach 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:3
Suburban sprawl has been widely criticized for its contribution to auto dependence. Numerous studies have found that residents
in suburban neighborhoods drive more and walk less than their counterparts in traditional environments. However, most studies
confirm only an association between the built environment and travel behavior, and have yet to establish the predominant underlying
causal link: whether neighborhood design independently influences travel behavior or whether preferences for travel options
affect residential choice. That is, residential self-selection may be at work. A few studies have recently addressed the influence
of self-selection. However, our understanding of the causality issue is still immature. To address this issue, this study
took into account individuals’ self-selection by employing a quasi-longitudinal design and by controlling for residential
preferences and travel attitudes. In particular, using data collected from 547 movers currently living in four traditional
neighborhoods and four suburban neighborhoods in Northern California, we developed a structural equations model to investigate
the relationships among changes in the built environment, changes in auto ownership, and changes in travel behavior. The results
provide some encouragement that land-use policies designed to put residents closer to destinations and provide them with alternative
transportation options will actually lead to less driving and more walking.
Xinyu (Jason) Cao is a research fellow in the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. His research interests include the influences of land use on travel and physical activity, and transportation planning. Patricia L. Mokhtarian is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the interdisciplinary Transportation Technology and Policy graduate program, and Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She specializes in the study of travel behavior. Susan L. Handy is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Director of the Sustainable Transportation Center at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests center around the relationships between transportation and land use, particularly the impact of neighborhood design on travel behavior. 相似文献
Susan L. HandyEmail: |
Xinyu (Jason) Cao is a research fellow in the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. His research interests include the influences of land use on travel and physical activity, and transportation planning. Patricia L. Mokhtarian is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the interdisciplinary Transportation Technology and Policy graduate program, and Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She specializes in the study of travel behavior. Susan L. Handy is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Director of the Sustainable Transportation Center at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests center around the relationships between transportation and land use, particularly the impact of neighborhood design on travel behavior. 相似文献
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Konstantinos G. Zografos Konstantinos N. Androutsopoulos Teemu Sihvola 《Transportation》2008,35(6):777-795
Flexible transport services include a wide range of demand responsive transport systems that provide non-conventional passenger
and freight transportation services. Several alternative business models varying according to the local market conditions,
the socio-economic, legal, and institutional framework may be developed for the provision of Flexible Transport Systems (FTS).
The objective of this paper is twofold: first to present an integrated methodological framework for developing and assessing
alternative FTS business models and second to demonstrate its applicability to a case study regarding the prioritization of
alternative FTS business models for the provision of flexible passenger transport services in Helsinki.
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Teemu SihvolaEmail: |
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Residential location,vehicle ownership and travel in Asia: a comparative analysis of Kei-Han-Shin and Kuala Lumpur metropolitan areas 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
The study examines the relationships between residential location, vehicle ownership and mobility in two metropolitan areas
of Asia, Kei-Han-Shin area of Japan and Kuala Lumpur area of Malaysia. It shows that, behind apparent similarities of household
auto ownership and travel time expenditure per household member, there are many causal relationships that are distinct between
the areas. The similarities and differences between the two areas point to the conjecture that the evolution of a metropolitan
area may be unique and path dependent, being heavily influenced by the history and culture of the locale, spatial and geographical
constraints, and historical progression in infrastructure development.
Metin Senbil is an Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning Department at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests cover different aspects of urban travel demand and its interactions with telecommunications, land use, and policies directed at controlling as well as managing travel demand. Ryuichi Kitamura is Professor of Civil Engineering Systems at Kyoto University, Japan. His past research effort spans in the area of travel behavior analysis and demand forecasting, in particular in activity-based analysis, and panel surveys and dynamic analysis of travel behavior. He is associate editor of Transportation. Dr Jamilah Mohamad is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Her main fields of research interest are travel behavior, the relationship between transport and spatial development and urban growth management. 相似文献
Jamilah MohamadEmail: |
Metin Senbil is an Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning Department at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests cover different aspects of urban travel demand and its interactions with telecommunications, land use, and policies directed at controlling as well as managing travel demand. Ryuichi Kitamura is Professor of Civil Engineering Systems at Kyoto University, Japan. His past research effort spans in the area of travel behavior analysis and demand forecasting, in particular in activity-based analysis, and panel surveys and dynamic analysis of travel behavior. He is associate editor of Transportation. Dr Jamilah Mohamad is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Her main fields of research interest are travel behavior, the relationship between transport and spatial development and urban growth management. 相似文献
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This paper presents a detailed exploratory analysis of joint activity participation characteristics using the American Time
Use Survey (ATUS). As a very large nationwide survey that explicitly elicited information on both household and non-household
companions for each activity episode, the ATUS is ideally suited for this analysis. Several intuitive and interesting results
are obtained. Joint episodes are found to be of longer durations, significantly likely to take place at the residence of other
people, and often confined to certain time periods of the weekday. In addition, important differences in these characteristics
are also observed based on activity purpose, companion type, and the day of the week. These findings are intended to provide
the basis for the justification of detailed collection of joint activity–travel participation information in household activity–travel
surveys, and also as a stimulant for further empirical analysis and modeling of joint activity participation behavior.
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Chandra R. BhatEmail: |