Travel time budgets: new evidence from multi-year, multi-day data

Peter R. Stopher (), Asif Ahmed and Wen Liu
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Peter R. Stopher: The University of Sydney
Asif Ahmed: The University of Sydney
Wen Liu: The University of Sydney

Transportation, 2017, vol. 44, issue 5, No 12, 1069-1082

Abstract: Abstract The existence of stable personal travel-time expenditure has been debated for more than 40 years. Aggregate research has supported this notion, while disaggregate research has largely failed to find evidence. In this paper, a unique data set containing multi-day GPS measurements of travel time expenditures over a period from 5 to 8 years is used to examine the evidence for stable daily personal travel-time expenditures. The evidence from this study adds further support to the notion that people expend a stable amount of travel time over a period as long as 8 years, and the average level of such expenditure accords almost exactly with that claimed over the years from aggregate studies.

Keywords: Travel-time budget; GPS survey; Panel survey; Multi-day data; Multi-year data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11116-016-9694-6

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