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Title:

Evolution of Non-worker Adults’ Weekday Leisure Time Use Patterns with Focus on Information and Communication Technology in 1998, 2005, and 2010: A Canadian Perspective

Accession Number:

01594328

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

With the information and technology revolution, a vast change in travel behavior where many trips were eliminated and new trip purposes were generated was observed. Since activity travel modeling is essential for transportation planners and policy makers, many researchers’ have employed activity-based modeling to examine and study the activity participation pattern of individuals given their individual and household socio-demographic information. Among different activity purposes that have been studied in the past, there have been no studies looking at the evolution of leisure activity participation and duration change over time. New habits have emerged following the information and technology revolution that have changed the way we communicate, interact, and make decisions; therefore it is clearly important to study the trend of leisure activity participation and more specifically, the potential observed and unobserved impact of Information and Communication Technologies on adults’ participating in this activity group. The econometric framework to study the longitudinal General Social Survey dataset from Canada (between 1998 and 2010) is the Ordered Regression Duration (ORD) model. The results of this study shows that there are several significant individual and household socio-demographic variables that have an effect on Canadian Non-worker adults’ participation in in-home leisure activity purposes with focus on ICT.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB20 Standing Committee on Effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Travel Choices. Alternate title: Evolution of Nonworker Adults’ Weekday Leisure Time Use Patterns with Focus on Information and Communication Technology in 1998, 2005, and 2010: Canadian Perspective.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-5668

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Sobhani, Anae
Basirat, Meysam

Pagination:

18p

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:

References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Activity based modeling

Geographic Terms:

Canada

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-5668

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 6:29PM