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Travel time budgets: new evidence from multi-year, multi-day data

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  • Peter R. Stopher

    (The University of Sydney)

  • Asif Ahmed

    (The University of Sydney)

  • Wen Liu

    (The University of Sydney)

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The existence of stable personal travel-time expenditure has been debated for more than 40 years. Aggregate research has supported this notion, while disaggregate research has largely failed to find evidence. In this paper, a unique data set containing multi-day GPS measurements of travel time expenditures over a period from 5 to 8 years is used to examine the evidence for stable daily personal travel-time expenditures. The evidence from this study adds further support to the notion that people expend a stable amount of travel time over a period as long as 8 years, and the average level of such expenditure accords almost exactly with that claimed over the years from aggregate studies.

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  • Peter R. Stopher & Asif Ahmed & Wen Liu, 2017. "Travel time budgets: new evidence from multi-year, multi-day data," Transportation, Springer, vol. 44(5), pages 1069-1082, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:transp:v:44:y:2017:i:5:d:10.1007_s11116-016-9694-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11116-016-9694-6
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