Adeel, M. (2018) Travel Behavior variations across urban and rural areas of Pakistan. TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, SP/01 (01/18). pp. 83-94. ISSN 1970-9870
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Abstract
This paper examines the 2007 Paksitan national time use survey to report the degree to which the national travel behaviour varies between urban and rural of Pakistan and how it is shaped by the socioeconomic and individual characteristics. Longitudnal anlaysis was performed on 37,830 time use diaries collected in the survey in Stata and the resulting tavel behvaior charactersitics have been examined through houshoeld and individual socioecnomic variables. At the national level, walking remains the dominant mode of daily mobility across the country. Nearly 90 percent of daily travel is done by walk However, the daily trip rate, mode choice and travel durations vary significantly across urban and rural geographies. Urban residents are slightly less mobile and exhibits greater use of personal automobile than rural residents. Rural residents make 4.6 trips epr day as compared ot 4.4 trips per day of urban residents. Simlary rural population are found to otravel 101 minutes per day as comapred to significantly lower duration of 98 minutes among urban residents. While walking trips usually take same time, mean trip duration by automobiles is also much longer among rural population than urban (42.2 minutes vs 34.1 minutes) These differences become more pronounced across gender and urban women appear to be the least mobile while rural men appear most mobile as apparent form their daily trip rates of 2.6 and 5.7 per perosn, respectively. There exists slight local regional variation across provinces which are closely related to the local social and spatial drivers of mobility. The paper contends that the rural travel differences are mainly caused by difference in income levels. Urban built environment is more conducive to motorized mobility which results in greater automobile reliance in cities, particularly for women. Social and cultural environment also plays potentially significant and spatially explicit role which remains under addressed and calls for further research.
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