01472762

Component

Children lifestyle including their travel and activity pattern is highly influenced by their household characteristics. Household socioeconomic characteristics determine most aspects of children's life including their school location, and school travel mode choice. A statistical analysis and discrete choice modeling approach is conducted in this paper to investigate the primary school children travel behavior. This study focused on representative trip chain, mode choice, school location and escort status as fundamental elements in children’s trips pattern. Contingency analysis is used to check for the correlation among explanatory variables such as household socioeconomics, gender and city with intended travel behavioral aspects. Statistical analysis revealed that gender and family car ownership are two of the most efficacious parameters. A two stage discrete choice model is used for modeling decision process among children and their parents in their behavior. This study shows that parent’s attitude about their children is highly affected by child’s gender and this is due to some cultural and religious believers of Iranian household.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values.

01470560

13-3669

English

17p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Activity choices; Children; Choice models; Gender; Households; Location; Mode choice; Parents; Schools; Socioeconomic factors; Statistical analysis; Travel behavior; Trip chaining

Iran

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3669

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:43PM