What is different about urban activities of those with access to ICTs? Some early evidence from Québec, Canada

Martin Lee-Gosselin and Luis F. Miranda-Moreno

Journal of Transport Geography, 2009, vol. 17, issue 2, 104-114

Abstract: The first wave, conducted in 2002–2003, of an in-depth panel survey in Quebec City, was used to compare the out-of-home activities of adults who had the use of mobile phones, or of internet at home, to those who did not. A unique feature of the survey was the inclusion of respondents’ perceptions of the both the temporal and the spatial flexibility of all executed activities. We find, after statistical controls for other factors, that mobile phone use was positively associated with activity and trip levels, while internet access was negatively associated. These two ICTs also had mostly opposite relationships with the routinisation and pre-arrangement of activities and with some conventionally defined sub-classes of activity.

Keywords: Activity; Travel; Spatio-temporal organization; ICTs; Mobile phone; Internet; Decision processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.11.009

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