Analysis of Routine Weekly Activity/Travel Patterns

摘要: As part of Wave 3 (2005-2006) the Travel/Activity Panel Survey (TAPS) in Toronto, 300 respondents 145 households described detail their routine weekly activities, including information concerning activity episodes’ purposes and usual durations, start times (by day week), locations travel modes. Information degree flexibility these episode activities was also collected. This paper first describes survey instrument used to collect this information. involved marking on a large sheet by time week, using combination free-form descriptions pre-specified symbols. The then presents detailed analysis data Included is comparison between as reported prior week those they were actually executed, recorded two-day diary, which survey. shows that notion “skeleton schedule” consists only are deterministically defined type (e.g. “mandatory” activities) augmented with “flexible” household maintenance discretionary unfounded. Many exceptions found rule. Men have greater proportion than women, exception weekday work/school activities. suggests it may be appropriate model schedule building layers, fully non-flexible (of all types) scheduled first, but flexible second, non-routine last.