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Title:

Long-Distance Travel for Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) and Leisure Purposes Empirical Analysis and Modeling Framework

Accession Number:

01593596

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This paper makes a two-fold contribution to the transportation modeling literature on long-distance pleasure travel. First, the paper highlights the importance of distinguishing travel for visiting friends and relatives (VFR) from other pleasure travel purposes (non-VFR or leisure). Based on a descriptive analysis of the 1995 American Travel Survey (ATS) data, VFR travel is found to be different from leisure travel in many ways, including the extent of travel (more than half of all long-distance pleasure travel is for VFR), extent of variety seeking in destination choices, distances traveled, time allocation, monetary expenditures, travel mode shares, trip frequency, seasonality of travel, and travel party size. Second, the paper formulates a household-level econometric model system for analyzing a suite of household-level annual long-distance pleasure travel choices, including annual long-distance pleasure time budget, annual destination choices for long-distance pleasure travel, and for each destination visited, the purpose of travel, annual time allocation, travel mode, and annual trip frequency. The empirical model system, estimated using data from the ATS, sheds light on various determinants of long-distance pleasure travel choices, including the usefulness of migration data for modeling VFR and leisure destination choices. Prediction exercises with the model demonstrate its potential applicability in a national travel model system for forecasting nationwide pleasure travel demand.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ10 Standing Committee on National Transportation Data Requirements and Programs. Alternate title: Long-Distance Travel for Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) and Leisure Purposes: Empirical Analysis and Modeling Framework.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-6751

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Sivaraman, Vijayaraghavan
Pinjari, Abdul
Polzin, Steven E

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-6751

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 6:56PM