Travel and activity time allocation: An empirical comparison between eight cities in Europe

Travel and activity time allocation: An empirical comparison between eight cities in Europe

[SHS:ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economy and finances

Travel

Activity

Time allocation

Cities

Europe

Duration model

A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over three countries: France (Lyon, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Rennes), Switzerland (Geneva, Bern and Zurich) and Belgium (Brussels), based on individual travel survey data collected between 1997 and 2006. The effects of socio-demographic, spatial context, transport availability and city-specific variables are investigated thanks to the Cox proportional hazard model. The results indicate that socio-demographic characteristics and city (or country) specific effect play a major role while residential density and proximity to high level road or public transport networks have a very limited impact on time budgets for travel and out-of-home activities.

Raux, Charles

Ma, Tai-Yu

Joly, Iragaël

Kaufmann, Vincent

Cornelis, Eric

Ovtracht, Nicolas

Transport Policy

ISSN:0967-070X

2011

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00578085

DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.11.004

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/57/80/85/PDF/Raux_et_al_Transport_Policy.pdf