Household Income, Travel Behavior, Location, and Accessibility: Sketches from Two Different Developing Contexts

This paper analyzes the differences in travel behavior and location characteristics across different income groups in two cities in different parts of the world: Chile and China. Vehicle ownership rates, mode choices, trip rates and purposes, and travel times and distances are compared according to high-, middle-, and low-income terciles in Chengdu, China, and Santiago, Chile, with the use of recent household travel surveys. Household location characteristics are also compared, and different measures of accessibility are presented. Results suggest commonalities and differences and build a foundation on which future analytical models can be developed and more rigorous and comparable accessibility measures might be derived.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/2038-17
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  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Household+Income%2c+Travel+Behavior%2c+Location%2c+and+Accessibility%3a+Sketches+from+Two+Different+Developing+Contexts&author=P.+Zegras&author=S.+Srinivasan&publication_year=2007
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• Authors:
  • Zegras, P Christopher
  • Srinivasan, Sumeeta
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 128-138
• Monograph Title: Developing Countries 2007
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2038
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobile ownership; Developing countries; Income; Land use; Mode choice; Residential location; Travel behavior; Travel surveys; Travel time; Trip length; Trip purpose
• Uncontrolled Terms: Trip rates
• Geographic Terms: Chengdu (China); Chile; China; Santiago (Chile)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055782
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309113021
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 28 2007 10:56AM