Linking activity participation, socioeconomic characteristics, land use and travel patterns: a comparison of industry and commerce sector workers
Relações entre participação em atividades, características socioeconômicas, uso do solo e padrões de viagens: uma comparação entre trabalhadores nos setores industrial e comercial
The objective of this work is to analyze the travel behavior of industry and commerce sector workers in terms of three variables groups: activity participation, socioeconomic characteristics and land use. This work is based on the Origin-Destination survey carried out in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) in 1997. Relationships were found between the concerned variables (Decision Tree), and the statistical significance of independent variables was assessed (Multiple Linear Regression). We analyzed the influence of the three variables groups on travel pattern choices: (A) socioeconomic variables (Household Income, Transit Pass Ownership and Car-ownership) affect the travel mode sequence; (B) activity participation (Study, Work) has an effect on the trip purpose sequence; and (C) land use variables (accumulated proportion of jobs by distance buffers starting from the home traffic zone centroid) influence the sequence of destinations chosen, especially in the case of industry sector workers. The different spatial distributions of economic activities (commercial and industrial) in the urban environment influence the travel of workers. This paper contributes essentially proposing the land use variable, through the intervening opportunities model as well as the presentation of a methodology, formed by application of exploratory and confirmatory techniques of multivariate data analysis.
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- Abstract used with permission of the Brazilian Transportation Planning Society (BTPS)
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Authors:
- Pitombo, Cira Souza
- Kawamoto, Eiji
- de Sousa, Antonio Jorge Gonçalves
- Publication Date: 2013-7
Language
- English
- Portuguese
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 59-86
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Serial:
- Journal of Transport Literature
- Volume: 7
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Brazilian Transport Planning Society
- ISSN: 2238-1031
- Serial URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=2238-1031&lng=en&nrm=iso
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Activity choices; Land use; Socioeconomic factors; Surveys; Travel behavior; Travel patterns
- Geographic Terms: Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01492630
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 11 2013 7:31AM