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This paper examines the relationship between the trip complexity of older people of (60 years and older), as measured by the number of stops they make in a tour. The data used for this analysis is the trip-chaining dataset of the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, which is a comprehensive survey of travel behavior in the United States. Our analysis focuses on understanding the difference in the behavior of older people compared to earlier work done on this same data for the entire sample (Noland and Thomas, in press). Our focus is both on examining the effect of urban form, as proxied by population density, and the effect of medical conditions of older people on their travel. We break down the age cohorts into sub-groups that span the range of our population of those older than 60. This helps in understanding distinctions between the travel of the “old-old” and the “young-old”. An ordered probit model is used to conduct a multivariate analysis of these effects on trip complexity. Our results yield some interesting findings and both similarities and differences in the travel behavior of older people compared to the entire sample.

01084478

08-0348

English

26p

2008

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

DVD

References; Tables (6)

Age groups; Aged; Diseases and medical conditions; Health; Health care; Population density; Travel behavior; Trip chaining

National Household Travel Survey

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-0348

TRIS, TRB

Jan 29 2008 2:42PM