Abstract
For a better understanding of commuting behavior, the home-to-work journey has to be addressed in the context of daily time use. Although many studies have analyzed commuting times, the influence of the time spent working on the home-to-work travel time has only been investigated indirectly. This paper uses the travel-time ratio concept to investigate the association between work duration and commuting. We describe the theoretical framework of the travel-time ratio and analyze realized travel-time ratios for work activities with data from the 1998 Dutch National Travel Survey. It is shown that workers, on average, spend 10.5% of the time available for work and travel on commuting, which corresponds to 28 min (single trip) for an 8-h workday. The travel-time ratio varies systematically with sociodemographic variables; urban form is of rather limited importance in the explanation of travel-time ratio values.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 573-592 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Activity-based analysis
- Commuting
- Multilevel models
- The Netherlands
- Time use
- Travel-time ratio