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Title:

TRAVEL-TIME BUDGET: A CRITIQUE (DISCUSSION)

Accession Number:

00373350

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/030903406X

Abstract:

A critical evaluation of travel-budget concepts that stresses the travel-time budget is presented. Neither the detailed theoretical discussion nor the empirical findings from Baltimore and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul presented here support the concept of stability of travel-time budgets. The paper postulates some methodological improvements in travel-budget analyses that focus on the proper definition of the analysis unit. Making these improvements is seen as a prerequisite for finding meaningful regularities in travel behavior as well as for allowing comparisons of results. The alternative concept presented assumes stability of activity budgets (represented by trip rates) of homogeneous groups of persons. The proposed eight-category individual travel-demand model reveals many regularities in travel characteristics and satisfactory geographic transferability of trip rates of defined person categories.

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411676

Authors:

Supernak, Janusz

Editors:

Herman, Scott C

Discussers:

Zahavi, Yacov

Pagination:

pp 15-28

Publication Date:

1982

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 879
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

030903406X

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (17) ; References (21) ; Tables (6)

Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jun 30 1983 12:00AM

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