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Title:

Travel Behavior Among Same-Sex Couples

Accession Number:

01515894

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In this paper, the authors explore the determinants of gays’ and lesbians’ mode choice. Same-sex partnered individuals are far more likely to use transit, walk, and cycle, and to a lesser extent, use carpools. They attempt to explain these often dramatic differences by controlling for factors known to influence mode choice. They hypothesize that characteristics of the neighborhoods in which many gays and lesbians live (such as high residential density, centrality, and urban form) can explain at least some of their increased propensity to use “alternative” modes of travel. Living in a gay or lesbian neighborhood should further increase the use of these alternative modes of transportation for gays and lesbians, because they enable dense activity patterns focused around the neighborhood. The authors perform two separate analyses employing two distinct datasets. The first analysis examines journey-to-work data from the American Community Survey. The second analysis focuses in specifically on non-motorized (walking, biking) travel using use self-reported walk and bike frequency from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey. In both, they find that characteristics of the neighborhoods in which gays and lesbians live, as well characteristics of the individuals themselves, only explain part of the increased propensity to use “alternative” modes of transportation; a strong residual effect remains. The authors mixed evidence for the effect of living in a neighborhood with a large share of same-sex partnered households.

Supplemental Notes:

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

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-2984

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Klein, Nicholas J
Smart, Michael J

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Gays

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2984

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:01PM