Linking activity participation, socioeconomic characteristics, land use and travel patterns: a comparison of industry and commerce sector workers

Relações entre participação em atividades, características socioeconômicas, uso do solo e padrões de viagens: uma comparação entre trabalhadores nos setores industrial e comercial

Abstracts

The objective of this work is to analyze the travel behavior of industry and commerce sector workers in terms of three variables groups: activity participation, socioeconomic characteristics and land use. This work is based on the Origin-Destination survey carried out in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) in 1997. Relationships were found between the concerned variables (Decision Tree), and the statistical significance of independent variables was assessed (Multiple Linear Regression). We analyzed the influence of the three variables groups on travel pattern choices: (A) socioeconomic variables (Household Income, Transit Pass Ownership and Car-ownership) affect the travel mode sequence; (B) activity participation (Study, Work) has an effect on the trip purpose sequence; and (C) land use variables (accumulated proportion of jobs by distance buffers starting from the home traffic zone centroid) influence the sequence of destinations chosen, especially in the case of industry sector workers. The different spatial distributions of economic activities (commercial and industrial) in the urban environment influence the travel of workers. This paper contributes essentially proposing the land use variable, through the intervening opportunities model as well as the presentation of a methodology, formed by application of exploratory and confirmatory techniques of multivariate data analysis.

travel behavior; land use; activity participation; socioeconomic variables

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o comportamento relacionado a viagens de trabalhadores do setor industrial e comercial, em termos de três grupos de variáveis: participação em atividades, características socioeconômicas e uso do solo. Este trabalho baseia-se na Pesquisa Origem-Destino, realizada na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) em 1997. Foram encontradas relações entre as variáveis consideradas (Árvore de Decisão), e a significância estatística das variáveis independentes (Regressão Linear Múltipla). Foi analisada a influência dos três grupos de variáveis na escolha dos padrões de viagens: (A) Variáveis socioeconômicas (Renda domiciliar, Vale transporte e Posse de automóveis) afetam a sequencia do modo de transporte; (B) Participação em atividades (Estuda e Trabalha) tem um efeito na sequencia dos motivos de viagem; e (C) variáveis de uso do solo (proporção acumulada de empregos por determinado raio a partir dos centroides das zonas de tráfego dos domicílios) influenciam a sequencia de destinos escolhidos, sobretudo para o caso de trabalhadores na indústria. Os diferentes arranjos espaciais das atividades econômicas (comerciais e industriais) na cidade influenciam a viagem dos trabalhadores. Este artigo contribui essencialmente através da proposta de uma variável de uso do solo, proveniente do modelo de oportunidades intervenientes, bem como na apresentação de um método que combina a aplicação conjunta de técnicas de análise multivariada de dados exploratórias e confirmatórias.

comportamento relacionado a viagens; uso do solo; participação em atividades; variáveis socioeconômicas

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  07 Nov 2013
• Date of issue
  July 2013

History

• Received
  11 June 2012
• Accepted
  11 Nov 2012
• Reviewed
  29 Oct 2012