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Assessing the effect of traveler's nationality on daily travel time expenditure using Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models: results from the Belgian national household travel survey.
Eftekhar, Hamed; Creemers, Lieve; Cools, Mario
2016 • In Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
nationality; travel time expenditure; travel time budget; zero-inflated negative binomial regression; bootstrapping
Abstract :
[en] In this paper, the effect of traveler's nationality on daily travel time expenditure is assessed using data stemming from the 2010 Belgian national household travel survey. In particular, different (zero-inflated) negative binomial models were estimated to isolate the effect of nationality, after controlling for other contributing factors such as socio-demographics, residential characteristics, transport options and temporal characteristics. The results indicate that, even if one controls for a series of other influencing factors, nationality plays a significant role in differences in travel time expenditure. This finding is especially relevant in the development of policy packages that are targeted to tackle social inequalities. From a methodological perspective, different methodological options, i.e. two weighting schemes and two bootstrap solutions, were presented to provide sufficient support for the conclusions. In order to generalize the results in further studies, an oversampling of travelers with a different nationality is strongly recommended. Future research should focus more on the underlying psychological constructs of why ethnic and cultural differences persist, even if one accounts for other determinants.
Research Center/Unit :
LEMA : Local Environment Management & Analysis Lepur : Centre de Recherche sur la Ville, le Territoire et le Milieu rural - ULiège
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...) Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Eftekhar, Hamed ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Transports et mobilité
Creemers, Lieve; Hasselt University, Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
Cools, Mario ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Transports et mobilité
Language :
English
Title :
Assessing the effect of traveler's nationality on daily travel time expenditure using Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models: results from the Belgian national household travel survey.
Publication date :
2016
Event name :
95th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board
Event organizer :
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
Event place :
Washington, United States - District of Columbia
Event date :
January 10–14, 2016
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
Publisher :
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, United States - District of Columbia