Citation

Arman MA, Khademi N, Lapparent M. Transp. Plann. Tech. 2018; 41(8): 845-877.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/03081060.2018.1526931

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the travel patterns of Iranian women, where typical patriarchal views and specific social and cultural norms may differ from the patterns of those in western societies. In addition to inherent psycho-physical gender differences, women in Iran can face special constraints forcing them not to be involved in all activity-travel patterns that people in developed countries usually undertake. We pay special attention to the role of marital and employment status on women's activity-travel patterns. To this end, we develop a joint mode and daily activity pattern (DAP) discrete choice model, which is a two-level mixed nested Logit. The upper nest of the proposed model embodies women's DAP choices, and the lower nest belongs to the mode choices. In this paper, we try to show how different factors in a patriarchal Muslim society like Iran affect or restrict women's type and structure of activity-travel patterns.

Language: en

Keywords

activity patterns; developing countries; discrete choice models; gender differences; mixed nested logit; travel behavior; Women