Gender and Travel Behavior in Two Arab Communities in Israel
Gender and Travel Behavior in Two Arab Communities in Israel
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DOI：
10.3141/2067-09
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发表时间：
2008-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
W. Elias;G. Newmark;Y. Shiftan
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作者：
W. Elias;G. Newmark;Y. Shiftan
这项研究解决了一个关键但研究不足的问题，即在传统社会，特别是在阿拉伯世界，旅行行为中的性别差异。为了避免已知的数据收集问题，在以色列北部的两个阿拉伯社区进行了一次仔细的、劳动密集型的调查。通过这一过程收集的数据通过各种统计手段进行分析，揭示了旅行行为中存在着相当明显的性别差异。总体而言，男性比女性进行更多的旅游，花费更多的时间旅行，停留更多的时间，在这些站点花费更多的时间在活动上。男性不成比例地乘坐私家车出行，而女性则不成比例地步行。在接受调查的社区中，提供的过境数量较少，相应地，交通方式所占份额也较低。这种交通工具的匮乏似乎进一步损害了女性的旅行。使用双变量相关和有序Logit模型对成年女性和男性的旅游频率进行了广泛的比较。这项分析中最引人注目的发现是，六分之一的阿拉伯女性甚至不会离开家去旅游一次，而男性的这一比例是三分之一。更细微的统计分析表明，人口因素对女性和男性旅游频率的影响不同。有效的政策干预必须考虑到这些性别差异，以尽可能最佳的方式满足阿拉伯世界社区个人的旅行需要。
This research addresses the critical but understudied issue of gender differences in travel behaviors in traditional societies, in general, and in the Arab world, in particular. To avoid known problems of data collection, a careful and labor-intensive survey process was undertaken in two Arab communities in northern Israel. The data gathered through this process were analyzed by a variety of statistical means to reveal that rather stark gender distinctions in travel behavior exist. On the whole, men make more tours, spend more time traveling, make more stops, and spend more time at activities at those stops than women. Men disproportionately travel by private vehicle modes, whereas women disproportionately walk. In the communities surveyed, the amount of transit provided was low and had a correspondingly low mode share. This dearth of transit seems to impair women's travel further. An extensive comparison of adult female and male tour frequencies was undertaken by using bivariate correlations and an ordered logit model. The most striking finding of this analysis was that 1/6th of Arab women do not leave the house to make even a single tour, whereas this proportion is 1/30th for men. The more nuanced statistical analyses revealed that demographic factors affect tour frequency differently for women and men. Effective policy interventions must consider these gender distinctions to address in the best way possible the travel needs of individuals in communities in the Arab world.