TRAVEL-TIME BUDGET: A CRITIQUE (DISCUSSION)

A critical evaluation of travel-budget concepts that stresses the travel-time budget is presented. Neither the detailed theoretical discussion nor the empirical findings from Baltimore and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul presented here support the concept of stability of travel-time budgets. The paper postulates some methodological improvements in travel-budget analyses that focus on the proper definition of the analysis unit. Making these improvements is seen as a prerequisite for finding meaningful regularities in travel behavior as well as for allowing comparisons of results. The alternative concept presented assumes stability of activity budgets (represented by trip rates) of homogeneous groups of persons. The proposed eight-category individual travel-demand model reveals many regularities in travel characteristics and satisfactory geographic transferability of trip rates of defined person categories.

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• Authors:
  • Supernak, Janusz
• Discussers:
  • Zahavi, Yacov
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 15-28
• Monograph Title: Household activities and behavior
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 879
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demographics; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Travel time; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Baltimore (Maryland); Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Minnesota)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00373350
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030903406X
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 30 1983 12:00AM