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

Charles Raux (), Tai-Yu Ma, Iragaël Joly, Vincent Kaufmann, Eric Cornelis () and Nicolas Ovtracht ()
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Charles Raux: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Tai-Yu Ma: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Vincent Kaufmann: LaSUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine - EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Eric Cornelis: Groupe de recherche sur les transports - FUNDP - Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix
Nicolas Ovtracht: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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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.

Keywords: Travel; Activity; Time allocation; Cities; Europe; Duration model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Transport Policy, 2011, 18 (2), pp. 401-412. ⟨10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.11.004⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.11.004

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