Travel-time ratios for visits to the workplace: the relationship between commuting time and work duration

摘要

For a better understanding of commuting behavior, the home-to-work journey has to be addressed in the context of daily time use. Although many studied have analyzed commuting times, the influence of the time spent working on the home-to-work travel time has only been investigated indirectly. This paper uses the travel-time ratio concept to investigate the association between work duration and commuting. We describe the theoretical framework of the travel-time ratio and analyze realized travel-time ratios for work activities with data from the 1998 Dutch National Travel Survey.