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

Charles Raux; Tai-Yu Ma; Iragaël Joly; Vincent Kaufmann; Eric Cornelis; Nicolas Ovtracht

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.11.004

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

Charles Raux, Tai-Yu Ma, Iragaël Joly, Vincent Kaufmann, Eric Cornelis, Nicolas Ovtracht

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	401-412
Number of pages	12
Journal	Transport Policy
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.11.004
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Travel
activity
Time allocation
cities
Europe
Duration model

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