Does commute duration attenuate the effect of travel mode choice on commute satisfaction?

The influence of travel attitudes, commute mode choice, and perceived neighborhood characteristics on physical activity.

BACKGROUND This study examines the relationships between physical activity, travel attitudes, commute mode choice, and perceived neighborhood characteristics. A recent study found that people who walk or bike during their commute exercise more outside of the commute than do people who commute by mass transit or car. The current study seeks to explain what might account for this relationship, us...

Modeling Residential Sorting Effects to Understand the Impact of the Built Environment on Commute Mode Choice

This paper examines the significance of residential sorting or self selection effects in understanding the impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use and transportation system attributes are often treated as exogenous variables in models of travel behavior. Such models ignore the potential self selection processes that may be in play wherein households and individuals choose t...

Travel mode choice and transit route choice behavior in Montreal: insights from McGill University members commute patterns

Happiness and Satisfaction with Work Commute

Research suggests that for many people happiness is being able to make the routines of everyday life work, such that positive feelings dominate over negative feelings resulting from daily hassles. In line with this, a survey of work commuters in the three largest urban areas of Sweden show that satisfaction with the work commute contributes to overall happiness. It is also found that feelings d...

Satisfaction with transport and enjoyment of the commute by commuting mode in inner Sydney.

Issue addressed Travel satisfaction has become an increasingly popular construct for the assessment and monitoring of transport systems and services. However, satisfaction may not adequately assess emotion or mood towards walking and cycling, especially when infrastructure is biased towards motor vehicle modes. In this exploratory study we sought to examine the associations of both satisfaction...