Article ID: | iaor200960838 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 301 |
End Page Number: | 319 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
Journal: | European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research |
Authors: | Anggraini Renni, Arentze Theo A, Timmermans Harry J P |
Keywords: | behaviour, decision: studies |
This paper considers car allocation choice behaviour in car-deficient households explicitly in the context of an activity-scheduling process, focusing on work activities. A decision tree induction method is applied to derive a decision tree for the car allocation decision in automobile deficient households using a large travel-and-activity diary data set recently collected in the Netherlands. The results show a satisfactory improvement in goodness of fit of the decision tree model compared to a null model. Overall, the probability of males getting the car for work is considerably higher than that of female in many condition settings. However, activity schedule, spatial and socio-economic variables appear to have an influence as well. An analysis of impacts of condition variables on car allocation decisions reveals that socio-economic variables have only a limited impact, whereas attributes of the transportation and land-use system have a relatively big impact. The propensity of men driving a car to the work place is higher than that of women. However, the relative accessibility of the work location by bike compared to car appears to have a relatively large influence on who gets the car for work. Household income and presence of children also appear to have significant effects.