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This study examines effects of children on household travel behavior, using data set collected in Jakarta, Indonesia. Children either impose coupling constraints on other household members or impose a loose mixture of capability and authority constraints on their activity and travel spaces. To examine the impact of children on various household non-commute trips, four different types of non-commute trips, i.e., trips to shopping, restaurant, park and recreation centers, and department store, are distinguished. These variables were regressed against socio-economic and demographic, neighborhood and various child variables by using two regression analyses: 1.) Linear regression on household non-commute trips, and 2.) Seemingly unrelated regression on non-commute trips by male and female household heads. Results for linear regression suggest that children can be grouped under general groups, i.e, pre-school, school, for accounting child effect on household travel behavior. Besides, number of children reveals significant results. Also in linear regression analyses, we found that this differentiation outperforms a classical lifecycle classification. Results for seemingly unrelated regression suggest that there is a general complementary among household heads in non-commute trips, except shopping trips which display substitution, albeit minor. Also, for household heads, pre-school children constitute the child group with significant effects on non-commute trips.

01084478

08-1920

English

18p

2008

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures (2) ; References (24) ; Tables (5)

Children; Demographics; Families; Households; Shopping trips; Socioeconomic factors; Travel behavior

Jakarta (Indonesia)

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-1920

TRIS, TRB

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