Gendered travel mode choice: a focus on car deficient households

This paper studies travel mode choice with a focus on car use in car deficient households from a gender perspective. Car deficient households are defined as households with more drivers than cars. The authors derive some key hypotheses from the literature and use the German Mobility Panel 1994-2008 to simultaneously test some of these hypotheses in a pooled data approach with cluster robust regression techniques. They find support for the social roles hypothesis which claims that mode choice may be impacted by the gendered roles a person takes in a household. Participation in paid work does not systematically affect car use more strongly than participation in unpaid work. Thus, there is no support for the economic power hypothesis which claims that car access is a function of intrahousehold economic power. The strong effect of sex leads the authors to conclude that there must be more behind gender differences in mode choice than just social roles. Gender differences in travel mode choice even in households with as many cars as drivers suggest that preferences may be at play. The paper concludes with an outlook on further research.

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  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692312000609
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
• Authors:
  • Scheiner, Joachim
  • Holz-Rau, Christian
• Publication Date: 2012-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 250-261
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0966-6923
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Automobile travel; Gender; Households; Mode choice; Social factors
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01450543
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 2012 9:30AM