Immobility and Mobility Seen Through Trip-Based Versus Time-Use Surveys

Nationwide transport surveys and time-use surveys both reflect the daily agendas and schedules of the reporting individuals and should therefore yield comparable indicators of travel behavior; for instance: immobility rate (share of persons not leaving the home on any one day), daily travel time, and number of trips per day. These two surveys exist in three countries from the same time period: Belgium, France, Great Britain. The comparisons demonstrate that they tell parallel stories, but that the levels of the variables are significantly different with lower immobility rates and longer travel times reported in the time-use surveys. These surveys should therefore be integrated in the analysis of travel behavior analysis as a crucial yardstick. In Europe, where nationwide travel surveys are intermittent and not harmonized, the harmonised time-use surveys allow for crucial European-wide comparisons across time and space.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/01441640801965722
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/7802200
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis
• Authors:
  • Hubert, Jean-Paul
  • Armoogum, Jimmy
  • Axhausen, Kay W
  • Madre, Jean-Loup
• Publication Date: 2008-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 641-658
• Serial:
  • Transport Reviews
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 0144-1647
  • EISSN: 1464-5327
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttrv20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Mobility; Travel behavior; Travel surveys; Travel time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Time use
• Geographic Terms: Belgium; France; United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01113426
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 21 2008 12:39PM