10.20381/ruor-12709
Cameron, Nairne
A comparative study of individual travel patterns of urban fringe dwellers in Ottawa, Canada; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2003
Geography.
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2013-11-07
2013-11-07
2003
2003
en
Thesis
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1794.
http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28977
A technique for gathering, analyzing and grouping individual travel pattern data is developed and tested in an international case study to compare the travel behaviours of urban fringe dwellers in three cities. The cities are Ottawa, Canada; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The technique makes a contribution to research methodology through implementation of the following elements in combination: (1) an urban fringe, spatial, residential sampling procedure; (2) a household survey that gathers detailed data on respondents and their travel patterns for three days over the period of a week including both work and non-work time periods; and, (3) an analysis that decomposes the travel patterns into various dimensions, facilitated by a Geographic Information System (GIS) which is followed by a segmentation of the travel patterns using cluster analysis. Based on the Ottawa component of the survey, an approach is suggested for collecting spatial familiarity data from urban fringe dwellers. The approach explores relationships involving respondents' previous residential locations in the city region. This evaluates their areal familiarity: a factor which influences their travel patterns. The comparative study examines empirical relationships by means of comprehensive data analysis and hypothesis testing. The dimensions of travel investigated are: travel activities, modes of travel, distance, time and speed of travel, trip destinations, reasons for travel, frequency of travel, complexity of travel, and, spatial familiarity. Case study results reveal several commonalities and differences between the three field sites: (a) the car is the dominant mode in Ottawa, compared to a wider diversity of modes operating in the Southeast Asian field sites; (b) individual respondents in Yogyakarta travelled by a greater number of modes than those in Ottawa and Kuala Lumpur; (c) car modal share increased on non-work days compared to work days in all sites; (d) respondents in Ottawa exhibited the highest mean travel distances, travel times and speeds, followed by respondents in Kuala Lumpur and Yogyakarta; (e) the urban fringe was the destination of over half of all stops in both the Kuala Lumpur and Yogyakarta surveys, compared to less than half in Ottawa; and, (f) across field sites and survey days, the clusters with the highest mean tours per day have daily destinations concentrated in the urban fringe.