Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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143 Effects of Gender on Commuter Behavior Changes in the Context of a Major Freeway Reconstruction Patricia L Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis Liang Ye, School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, China Meiping Yun, School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, China To study the commuter travel behavior impacts of a 9-week reconstruction of interstate 5 in downtown Sacramento, California, a series of three internet-based surveys was conducted.
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144 WOMEN'S iSSUES iN TRANSPORTATiON, vOLUME 2 Do women, with generally more complex activity schedules (Bianco and Lawson 2000; Hjorthol 2004) , experience adverse impacts of such reconstruction projects more heavily than men?
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145EFFECTS OF GENDER ON COMMUTER BEHAviOR CHANGES The disruption occasioned by a freeway reconstruction may be severe enough to trigger the reconsideration of habitual behavior, and thus another literature relevant to this study deals with voluntary behavior change and habit disruption. Research on voluntary behavior change is often directed to reducing the use of private motor vehicles in urban areas (Taylor et al.
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146 WOMEN'S iSSUES iN TRANSPORTATiON, vOLUME 2 TABLE 1 Selected Characteristics of the Sample, by Gender Pooled Data Men Women Characteristic (sample sizes) Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number of cases 6,934 100.0 2,247 32.4 4,160 60.0 Average age (years)
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147EFFECTS OF GENDER ON COMMUTER BEHAviOR CHANGES tions focusing on a "typical 28-day (4-week) period" "before Fix i-5 began." Respondents were asked for the number of days out of 28 on which they • Worked at home as the regular location of their job, • Worked at home instead of commuting to their regular workplace, and • Physically traveled to a regular workplace outside their home.
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148 WOMEN'S iSSUES iN TRANSPORTATiON, vOLUME 2 have ordinarily done on those days (multiple answers were possible for both questions)
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149EFFECTS OF GENDER ON COMMUTER BEHAviOR CHANGES Nearly half the respondents reported making a special effort to avoid peak hour during the closure week (on an average of 4 days out of the week) , and 44% of those driving or carpooling to work that week reported making planned changes to their commute route (on an average of 3.4 days)
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150 WOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 Seven variables besides the constant are retained in the model: two mode usage variables, one awareness variable, two employer strategies (gender-specific) , and two (gender-specific)
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151EFFECTS OF GENDER ON COMMUTER BEHAviOR CHANGES giving them less incentive to switch to transit. This may be true for women but not for men for the same reasons, leading fewer women than men to use transit in normal times.
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152 WOMEN'S iSSUES iN TRANSPORTATiON, vOLUME 2 handling and other tasks. Ryan Huang, Calvin iwan, Charmine Solla, and Aayush Thakur provided invaluable assistance in data cleaning.
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153EFFECTS OF GENDER ON COMMUTER BEHAviOR CHANGES Rose, G., and H Marfurt.
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