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Developments in information and communication technology continue to lead to improvements in the user experience of tele-activities. There is much debate among transportation researchers, practitioners, and policymakers regarding how the opening up of the online world is impacting on patterns of physical mobility. The present study contributes a novel analysis of the relationship between internet usage and time use, with time spent travelling (during the course of a 24-hour day) and aggregate time spent at out-of-home activities analyzed separately. The empirical analysis draws on the Scottish Household Survey, which contains a one-day travel diary paired with a pseudo-diary of online behavior that captures three dimensions of internet activity: the amount of time that respondents spend online per week, the types of tele-activities that they perform, and where they access the internet. The empirical findings presented include both ceteris paribus statistical association of specific dimensions of internet usage and aggregate (multi-dimensional) relationships. The latter suggest that (in the context of this dataset), internet usage correlates positively, net of confounding effects, with both time spent traveling and time spent at out-of-home activities.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB20 Effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Travel Choices.

01550057

15-6007

English

21p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Activity choices; Internet; Time; Travel surveys; Travel time

Scotland

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-6007

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 2:00PM