Comparison on travel scheduling between driving and walking trips by habitual car users

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• 作者：Sheila Ferrer ; Tomás Ruiz
• 关键词：Activity–travel scheduling ; Car driving trips ; Walking trips ; Scheduling decisions ; Bivariate probit ; Sample selection
• 刊名：Transportation
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：44
• 期：1
• 页码：27-48
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• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Regional/Spatial Science; Economic Geography; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Innovation/Technology Management;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-9435
• 卷排序：44

文摘

Research on walking behavior has become increasingly more important in the field of transportation in the past decades. However, the study of the factors influencing the scheduling decisions related to walking trips and the exploration of the differences between travel modes has not been conducted yet. This paper presents a comparison of the scheduling and rescheduling decisions associated with car driving trips and walking trips by habitual car users using a data set collected in Valencia (Spain) in 2010. Bivariate probit models with sample selection are used to accommodate the influence of pre-planning on the decision to execute a travel as pre-planned or not. The explicative variables considered are: socio-economic characteristics of respondents, travel characteristics, and facets of the activity executed at origin and at destination including the scheduling decisions associated with them. The results demonstrate that a significant correlation exists between the choices of pre-planning and rescheduling for both types of trips. Whether for car driving or walking trips, the scheduling decisions associated with the activity at origin and at destination are the most important explicative factors of the trip scheduling and rescheduling decisions. However, the rescheduling of trips is mainly influenced by modifications in the activity at destination. Some interesting differences arise regarding the rescheduling decision processes between travel modes: if pre-planned, walking trips are less likely to be modified than car driving trips, showing a more rigid rescheduling behavior.