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Title:

Integrated Analysis of Workers' Physically Active Activity and Active Travel Choice Behavior

Accession Number:

01476376

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Employing 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) Texas add-on sample data, this study examines individual’s active choice decisions with a specific market focus on adult workers. This is achieved by examining worker’s two choice behaviors: active activity and active travel. The first choice behavior is developed as an ordered-response model based on the number of physically active recreational activities pursued during the workday. The second model is developed as a binary-response model that examines worker’s active travel choices; whether or not the worker used any active mode of travel during the same workday. The current study contributes to the field by improving our understanding and knowledge of factors influencing worker’s physically active activity-travel behavior. The study provides several insights regarding the role (and constraints) of employment in individual’s active choices while demonstrating that transportation and public health policy makers can mutually benefit from encouraging workers to be physically active (from an activity and/or travel perspective). Using a flexible and robust copula modeling methodology, the authors explore the ‘true’ correlation (or dependence) between the two behavior choices that might occur due to the presence of unobserved factors, in addition to the examination of various observed factors, suggesting a simultaneous low or simultaneously high propensity toward being physically active across workers. Overall, the study unifies and reveals the integrated nature of the public health and transportation fields thereby providing a distinct view of active/inactive choice behavior.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD50(1) Health and Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-2213

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Sener, Ipek N
Reeder, Phillip R

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Candidate Terms:

Copula-based models

Uncontrolled Terms:

Physical activity

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2213

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:29PM