Travel and activity time allocation: An empirical comparison between eight cities in Europe

Charles Raux (1) , Tai-Yu Ma (1) , Iragaël Joly (2) , Vincent Kaufmann (3) , Eric Cornelis (4) , Nicolas Ovtracht (1)

1 LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports
2 GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée = Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory
3 LaSUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine
4 Groupe de recherche sur les transports

A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over three countries: France (Lyon, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Rennes), Switzerland (Geneva, Bern and Zurich) and Belgium (Brussels), based on individual travel survey data collected between 1997 and 2006. The effects of socio-demographic, spatial context, transport availability and city-specific variables are investigated thanks to the Cox proportional hazard model. The results indicate that socio-demographic characteristics and city (or country) specific effect play a major role while residential density and proximity to high level road or public transport networks have a very limited impact on time budgets for travel and out-of-home activities.

Mots clés: Travel; Activity; Time allocation; Cities; Europe; Duration model

Domaines: Economies et finances

Charles Raux, Tai-Yu Ma, Iragaël Joly, Vincent Kaufmann, Eric Cornelis, et al.. Travel and activity time allocation: An empirical comparison between eight cities in Europe. Transport Policy, 2011, 18 (2), pp. 401-412. ⟨10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.11.004⟩. ⟨halshs-00578085⟩