Measuring the size and structure of human activity spaces
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Date
2002-09Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
The complexity of urban mobility and the failure of numerous transport strategies have shown that demand matching transport policies require a deeper analysis of the routines and dynamics of individual travel behaviour. Transportation research has so far mainly focused on the crosssectional analysis of persons and households mobility patterns. In most travel behaviour studies, the main interest has been on differences between travellers or groups of travellers as travelled by easily by one-day or few-days travel diary data. This paper addresses the long-term aspects of spatial mobility. It presents approaches to describe and measure the revealed travel patterns using the address geocodes of the six-week Mobidrive travel survey data. The description and measurement of the observed spatial choice is based on the activity space concept. The availability of the multi-week Mobidrive travel data makes it possible for the first time to measure the extent of individual activity spaces and to test hypotheses about the usage of urban space and the multi-centred structure of our daily life mobility. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-004444846Publication status
publishedJournal / series
Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungVolume
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IVT, ETH ZurichSubject
ETH Zurich; Mobidrive; Development of measures; Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT); Longitudinal travel data; Activity spaceOrganisational unit
02610 - Inst. f. Verkehrspl. u. Transportsyst. / Inst. Transport Planning and Systems03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02226 - NSL - Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft / NSL - Network City and Landscape
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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