VALUES OF TRAVEL TIME FOR HOUSEWIVES

Housewives have tended to be broadly ignored by time valuation studies, and by the Leitch Report, but study shows their travel to be of great and increasing importance. On the theoretical side, the building blocks were neoclassical time valuation studies, behavioral studies of transport demand, and certain recent criticisms of these. The data source was a series of 153 interviews of which 143 were short, 10 were in-depth using the Oxford TSU-developed household activity-travel simulator. Specific conclusions suggested include the following:-(1) Populations of transport users for shopping vary in time values and response to stimuli, in a way masked by tradtional transport demand models; (2) Housewives have a high value of time both in theory and when questioned, during their working lives (i.e. before children leave the home), values not revealed by demand models; (3) Car availability distorts modelled time values and choice processes focussed on time and cost.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Oxford

  Transport Studies Unit, 11 Bevington Road
  Oxford,   United Kingdom  OX2 6NB
• Authors:
  • Davis, E P
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Females; Households; Interviewing; Statistical analysis; Travel behavior; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00381566
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TSU/REF-139/CP
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM