TY - JOUR
T1 - Worthwhile travel time
T2 - 2022 Conference Proceedings Transport Research Arena, TRA Lisbon 2022
AU - Malichová, Eva
AU - Van Acker, Veronique
AU - Cornet, Yannick
AU - Milakis, Dimitris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Perceived travel experience has not been systematically integrated in transport project appraisal. The concept of worthwhile travel time (WTT) took the first step to fill this gap by introducing four perceived values of WTT (personal and work productivity, fitness, enjoyment) and the factors influencing them. This paper takes the next step by empirically exploring the factors influencing perceived WTT through a path analysis of a European-wide, app-based dataset on travel experience. Results show that (a) perceived WTT is directly influenced by the four values of WTT, mostly by enjoyment, (b) most travel activities directly influence the four values of WTT, with “accompanying someone” being the most important one, (c) women report lower perceived WTT than men, (d) trip purpose indirectly affects perceived WTT, with travel time thus not being purely valued based on destination.
AB - Perceived travel experience has not been systematically integrated in transport project appraisal. The concept of worthwhile travel time (WTT) took the first step to fill this gap by introducing four perceived values of WTT (personal and work productivity, fitness, enjoyment) and the factors influencing them. This paper takes the next step by empirically exploring the factors influencing perceived WTT through a path analysis of a European-wide, app-based dataset on travel experience. Results show that (a) perceived WTT is directly influenced by the four values of WTT, mostly by enjoyment, (b) most travel activities directly influence the four values of WTT, with “accompanying someone” being the most important one, (c) women report lower perceived WTT than men, (d) trip purpose indirectly affects perceived WTT, with travel time thus not being purely valued based on destination.
KW - Travel experience
KW - Travel satisfaction
KW - Value of enjoyment
KW - Value of fitness
KW - Value of productivity
KW - Worthwhile travel time
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U2 - 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.799
DO - 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.799
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85182943695
SN - 2352-1457
VL - 72
SP - 2612
EP - 2619
JO - Transportation Research Procedia
JF - Transportation Research Procedia
Y2 - 14 November 2022 through 17 November 2022
ER -