Trip making of older adults in Seoul: Differences in effects of personal and household characteristics by age group and trip purpose

Jin-Seok Hahn, Hyoung-Chul Kim, Joon-Ki Kim and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson

Journal of Transport Geography, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 55-62

Abstract: Korea is experiencing a rapid increase in the number and proportion of the older population aged 65 and older. This study investigated personal and household characteristics affecting trip making of older adults (65years and older) using data from the 2010 Household Travel Survey in Seoul. It was tested if the effects of characteristics were the same for the 65+ and the under 65 groups, and if the effects for older adults were the same for the 65–74 and the 75+ groups. Trips were also classified into mandatory and discretionary trips and models estimated for the 65+ group for those two trip purposes. The investigation was done with a heteroskedastic ordered logit model to account for age differences in unobserved variance.

Keywords: Aging; Trip frequency; Heteroskedasticity; Elderly; Ordered logit; Travel behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.09.010

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