Travel-time ratios for visits to the workplace: The relationship between commuting time and work duration

Travel-time ratios for visits to the workplace: The relationship between commuting time and work duration

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Article ID: iaor2003528
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 36A
Issue: 7
Start Page Number: 573
End Page Number: 592
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Journal: Transportation Research. Part A, Policy and Practice
Authors: ,
Keywords: work, transportation: road, urban affairs
Abstract:

For a better understanding of commuting behavior, the home-to-work journey has to be addressed in the context of daily time use. Although many studies have analyzed commuting times, the influence of the time spent working on the home-to-work travel time has only been investigated indirectly. This paper uses the travel-time ratio concept to investigate the association between work duration and commuting. We describe the theoretical framework of the travel-time ratio and analyze realized travel-time ratios for work activities with data from the 1998 Dutch National Travel Survey. It is shown that workers, on average, spend 10.5% of the time available for work and travel on commuting, which corresponds to 28 min (single trip) for an 8-h workday. The travel-time ratio varies systematically with sociodemographic variables; urban form is of rather limited importance in the explanation of travel-time ratio values.

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