Determinants of Subjective Assessments of Personal Mobility

Gustavo O. Collantes and Patricia Mokhtarian

Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Abstract: This report focuses on the development of single-equation models for Subjective Mobility. It works with the premise that although the demand for travel is primarily derived from the demand to engage in spatially-separated activities, travel itself has an intrinsically positive utility that contributes to the demand for it. The affinity for travel can vary by person, mode, and purpose of travel. This report attempts to bring a better understanding of the causes and effects of that affinity for travel by studying 11 categories of key variables. It also looks toward understanding how measures such a frequency of trips, average trip distance, total distance traveled and total travel time are combined to construct subjective assessment of actual mobility. The report also focuses on identifying other factors that increase or diminish individuals' subjective assessment of their mobility. Data for this study was derived from a survey mailed to 8,000 randomly-selected households in three neighborhood of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Keywords: Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-08-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/07t1q8cm.pdf;origin=repeccitec (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt07t1q8cm

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lisa Schiff ().