Travel time use over five decades

In this paper, the authors use five decades of time-use surveys in the U.S. to document trends in travel time uses. The authors find that total travel time features an inverted-U shape, registering a 20 percent increase from 1975 to 1993, but an 18 percent decline from 1993 to 2013. The authors find that demographic shifts explain roughly 45 percent of the increase from 1975 to 1993, but play a much smaller role afterwards. From 2003 to 2013 the shift of time allocation from travel-intensive non-market work to travel-non-intensive leisure accounts for around 50 percent of the decline in total travel time.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.05.021
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856417301829
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  • © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Song, Chen
  • 0000-0002-6827-7845
  • Wei, Chao
• Publication Date: 2018-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 73-96
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 116
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demographics; Leisure time; Travel time; Trend (Statistics); Trip purpose
• Uncontrolled Terms: Time use
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01680493
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 17 2018 10:32AM