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

SBR-9529780关，梅宝俄亥俄州州立大学。 虽然许多研究发现男女在上班途中的方向和长度上存在差异，但这些研究中很少有明确的、基于经验的因果关系，与妇女的其他旅行活动、与妇女的整个时间和空间限制、或与不同族裔群体妇女之间的差异存在联系。 这项研究规划补助金将支持多城市研究设计的规范，以调查为基础的研究，以调查这些背景和差异。 研究设计将包括住户调查、利用地理信息系统进行数据跟踪和处理以及利用两个大型结构方程模型进行数据分析。 通过该奖项，将在俄亥俄州的大都市哥伦布进行试点调查。 本研究的理论效用应该是在概念和经验的妇女的旅行模式，家庭环境，距离感知和种族的连接。 实际效用在于改进交通预测和运输需求管理模型的潜力，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.