Understanding Commuters Daily Travel Time: Application of a Hazard-Based Duration Model
Travel behavior researchers have long been intrigued by the amount of time people allocate to travel in a day. This paper revisits this issue by introducing the hazard-based duration model to travel time analysis. In the hazard-based duration model daily travel time is analyzed through the likelihood of ending the duration depends on the length of elapsed time since start of the duration, which incorporates the impacts of covariates and enables the test of travel time dependence on the elapsed time. Using travel data from the Beijing Third Comprehensive Transport Survey, this paper sheds new light on daily travel time by analyzing the relationships between daily travel time and sociodemographic attributes and activity and travel characteristics. Furthermore the estimated results illustrate that the behavior of most commuters can be represented by travel time minimization mechanism. It is demonstrated that hazard-based duration model, integrating the notion of temporal dynamics, is a suitable tool for duration data analysis in travel behavior research.
daily travel time hazard-based duration model travel time minimization commuter
JUAN Zhicai XIANYU Jianchuan GAO Linjie
Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,535 Fahua Zhen Rd. Shanghai, College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Dianji University,88 Wenjing Rd. Shanghai, China School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 535 Fahua
国际会议
The 1st International Conference on Sustainable Construction & Risk Management(首届可持续建设与风险管理国际会议)
重庆
英文
347-352
2010-06-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）