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Title:

Travel-Based Multitasking: Modeling the Propensity to Conduct Activities While Commuting

Accession Number:

01559043

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper investigates the choices to engage in various activities while commuting. Using data collected through a survey of 2149 Northern California commuters, the authors develop binary logistic regression models of the decision to engage in each of eight types of activities on the commute: rest/sleep, use a laptop, use a smartphone, listen to audio, read printed materials, edit papers/printed materials, read electronic documents, and edit electronic documents. Explanatory variables include socio-demographic characteristics and attitudinal and time use factors. The authors model the engagement in each type of activity while traveling by each of five different modes (bicycle, commuter rail, transit, shared ride, and drive alone) – 33 models in all (excluding impractical combinations). The results illuminate the individual-specific traits affecting commuters’ propensities to engage in activities while traveling. Those propensities exhibit large differences across modes. Longer commutes result in higher propensities to engage in almost all modeled activities for commuter rail and ridesharing. Age, gender, income, trip distance, education level, attitudes and preferences towards the adoption of technology, familial obligations, expectations about time use, and attitudes towards multitasking all affect the propensity to engage in activities while commuting.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Travel-based Multitasking: Modeling the Propensity of Northern Californians to Conduct Activities While Commuting.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-5018

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Berliner, Rosaria M
Malokin, Aliaksandr
Circella, Giovanni
Mokhtarian, Patricia L

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Time use

Geographic Terms:

Northern California

Subject Areas:

Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-5018

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:41PM