A Study of Gender/Ethnic Differences in Activity-Travel Patterns Using Geographical Information Systems

虽然许多研究发现男性和女性在上班路上的方向和长度上存在差异，但相对而言，这些研究很少明确地、基于经验的、与女性的其他旅行活动、女性的整体时间和空间限制或不同种族女性之间的差异有因果关系。这项研究计划拨款将支持多城市研究设计的规范，用于基于调查的研究，以调查这些背景和差异。研究设计将包括家庭调查，使用地理信息系统的数据跟踪和操作，以及使用两个大型结构方程模型的数据分析。通过这一奖励，将在俄亥俄州的哥伦布市进行试点调查。这项研究的理论效用应该在于妇女的旅行模式与家庭背景、距离感知和种族之间的概念和经验联系。其实际效用在于改进交通预测和运输需求管理模型的潜力，这些模型可用于任何类型的基础设施规划或污染控制方案。

SBR-9529780 Kwan, Mei-Po Ohio State U. While much research has found differences in the direction and length of the journey to work of men versus women, relatively few of these studies have made explicit, empirically based, causal connection to the other travel activities of women, to the entirety of the time- and space- constraints of the women, or to differences among women of different ethnic groups. This Research Planning Grant will support the specification of a multi-city research design for a survey-based study to investigate these contexts and differences. The research design will include household surveys, data tracking and manipulation using a geographic information system, and data analysis using two large, structural-equation models. Through this award, a pilot survey will be conducted in metropolitan Columbus, Ohio. The theoretical utility of this research should be in the conceptual and empirical connection of women's travel patterns to household context, distance perception, and ethnicity. The practical utility lies in the potential for improving traffic forecasting and transport-demand-management models, used for any kind of infrastructural planning or pollution-control scenarios.