TRIP-CHAINING, CHILDCARE, AND PERSONAL SAFETY: CRITICAL ISSUES IN WOMEN'S TRAVEL BEHAVIOR

Transportation issues for women differ from those for men in that women frequently face circumstances that many men do not. These circumstances weigh heavily in women's decision-making about mode choice and are less important to men's decision making. In particular, among members of the Portland State University urban community the determining factors are: the necessity of making multiple stops (trip-chaining), for the purpose of transporting children to and from school or daycare, running errands, and grocery shopping safety concerns; and the lack of alternatives in lifestyle and transportation mode due to constraints imposed by any one or a combination of low income, single-mother status, or distance of residence. Using samples drawn from the Portland metropolitan region and the student and faculty-staff community at Portland State University, this paper studies the relationship between these factors and women's mode choice and propensity to trip-chain.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/womens/chap8.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Arizona, Tucson

  Drachman Institute, 819 E First Street
  Tucson, AZ  United States  85721

  Morgan State University

  1700 East Cold Spring Lane
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21251

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Conference:
  • Women's Travel Issues Second National Conference
  • Location: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Date: 1996-10-0 to 1996-10-0
• Publication Date: 1998-7-30

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 25p
• Monograph Title: WOMEN'S TRAVEL ISSUES: PROCEEDINGS FROM THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Children; Day care centers; Decision making; Distance; Females; Income; Males; Mode choice; Safety; Shopping trips; Travel behavior; Trip chaining; Universities and colleges
• Identifier Terms: Portland State University (Oregon)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Errands; Single mothers
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00925780
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 11 2002 12:00AM