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Title:

Women’s Time Use and Travel Behavior in Greek Urban and Rural Areas

Accession Number:

01372776

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) can contribute to the development of new patterns of behaviour by individuals in their everyday lives, as well as to the adaptation of the old ones to the new standards they introduce. Implementation of e-activities such as teleworking, tele-education or tele-shopping cut down the need for physical mobility thus enabling individuals to reprogram and scheduled their activities to optimum advantage. This paper seeks to obtain more insight into how women in Greece allocate their time during a typical weekday to various types of activities, while it explores the role of information and telecommunication technologies on the way that these activities are being conducted. The analysis of the data collected shows that women in less favoured areas, such as rural areas and islands prefer to use traditional means of transport for their usual activities (work, children care, shopping, etc.), mainly due to the little familiarity with the use of computers and to the smoother traffic conditions. Moreover, women with children tend to use for a longer duration e-means, for the implementation of specific activities during a typical weekday (mainly work and recreation). In some cases the activity may bring more utility if carried out via information and communication technologies (ICT) than by physical travel. For some women, “virtual mobility” offers attractive advantages in the context of much of their administrative personal business (administrative chores, financial transactions, comparison shopping, etc.), some of their retail trips and perhaps their daily commute.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE70 Women's Issues in Transportation

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-4022

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Polydoropoulou, Amalia
Tsirimpa, Athena

Pagination:

26p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Activities of daily living

Geographic Terms:

Greece

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-4022

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:21PM