TY - JOUR
T1 - Travel-time ratios for visits to the workplace
T2 - The relationship between commuting time and work duration
AU - Schwanen, Tim
AU - Dijst, Martin
PY - 2002/8
Y1 - 2002/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Activity-based analysis
KW - Commuting
KW - Multilevel models
KW - The Netherlands
KW - Time use
KW - Travel-time ratio
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U2 - 10.1016/S0965-8564(01)00023-4
DO - 10.1016/S0965-8564(01)00023-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036681034
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 36
SP - 573
EP - 592
JO - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
IS - 7
ER -