TY - JOUR
T1 - Seventy Minutes Plus or Minus 10 — A Review of Travel Time Budget Studies
AU - Ahmed, Asif
AU - Stopher, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Taylor & Francis.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/9/5
Y1 - 2014/9/5
N2 - This paper provides a comprehensive review of travel-time budget (TTB) studies in the literature for about the past four decades. Starting with the concept of TTBs, it discusses both the studies that support the existence of TTB and also those that deem the concept to be unfounded. Sociodemographic variables and their relation to TTB are also discussed briefly. However, as past studies use different data sources, survey techniques, and methodology for analysis, cross comparison of studies is not possible. Most importantly, the underlying cause of the regularity that is found at an aggregate level is still not known. The idea of TTB is important because, if it exists, it would mean that the total time spent on travelling per person per day will remain unchanged in spite of all improvements to transport. TTB has immense implications for transport policies and it is usually ignored. The paper also explores the available theoretical explanation of this concept, past research gaps and new analysis potentials. Recent directions in TTB studies are also discussed together with the potential use of multiday multiyear panel data in TTB research to explore the phenomenon better than before.
AB - This paper provides a comprehensive review of travel-time budget (TTB) studies in the literature for about the past four decades. Starting with the concept of TTBs, it discusses both the studies that support the existence of TTB and also those that deem the concept to be unfounded. Sociodemographic variables and their relation to TTB are also discussed briefly. However, as past studies use different data sources, survey techniques, and methodology for analysis, cross comparison of studies is not possible. Most importantly, the underlying cause of the regularity that is found at an aggregate level is still not known. The idea of TTB is important because, if it exists, it would mean that the total time spent on travelling per person per day will remain unchanged in spite of all improvements to transport. TTB has immense implications for transport policies and it is usually ignored. The paper also explores the available theoretical explanation of this concept, past research gaps and new analysis potentials. Recent directions in TTB studies are also discussed together with the potential use of multiday multiyear panel data in TTB research to explore the phenomenon better than before.
KW - constant travel budget
KW - human energy expenditure on travel
KW - multiday GPS travel survey data
KW - travel-time budgets
KW - travel-time expenditure
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U2 - 10.1080/01441647.2014.946460
DO - 10.1080/01441647.2014.946460
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908476456
VL - 34
SP - 607
EP - 625
JO - Transport Reviews
JF - Transport Reviews
SN - 0144-1647
IS - 5
ER -