The role of life course and gender in mobility patterns: a spatiotemporal sequence analysis in Barcelona

IF 5.1 3区 工程技术 Q1 TRANSPORTATION
Lídia Montero, Lucía Mejía-Dorantes, Jaume Barceló
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Citizens participate in various activities to fulfill their needs, advance their socio-economic status, and enhance their well-being through social and health-related engagements. However, activity participation is influenced by many factors in the built environment, such as the spatial and temporal dissemination of activities, which therefore necessitate travel to overcome physical distances. Moreover, individual attributes such as gender, daily schedules, and other socio-economic characteristics also influence mobility patterns. In this paper, we aim to investigate these factors in the specific context of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area using three different samples of residents from annual mobility surveys conducted between 2018 and 2020. To this end, we employ a sequence analysis method that examines the entire trajectory of an individual’s daily activities and travel, considering the number, order, and duration of activities. In this way, we analyse in detail how various individual characteristics and the built environment influence the fragmentation of activities. Our study yields multiple results. First, we find that even in a transport-oriented city, the fragmentation of activities is shaped by gender, especially after age 30, when major changes occur in an individual’s life course, in particular caring responsibilities and family status. Second, we observe that the educational level and year of the sample also play a central role in shaping mobility patterns. Finally, our paper makes a methodological contribution by defining sequence distances, after projecting the original space onto the factorial one defined by the Multiple Correspondence Analysis. This study shows that mobility policies should not focus solely on transport aspects, but also consider the built environment, dwelling location, gender, equity, and individual lifetime characteristics in an integrated manner.
生命历程和性别在人口流动模式中的作用:巴塞罗那的时空序列分析
公民参与各种活动,以满足他们的需求,提高他们的社会经济地位,并通过社会和健康相关的参与增进他们的福祉。然而,活动的参与受到建筑环境中许多因素的影响,例如活动在空间和时间上的传播,因此需要旅行来克服物理距离。此外,性别、日常安排和其他社会经济特征等个人属性也会影响流动模式。在本文中,我们旨在利用2018年至2020年间进行的年度流动性调查中的三个不同的居民样本,在巴塞罗那大都市区的特定背景下调查这些因素。为此,我们采用序列分析方法,检查个人日常活动和旅行的整个轨迹,考虑到活动的数量、顺序和持续时间。通过这种方式,我们详细分析了各种个体特征和建筑环境如何影响活动的碎片化。我们的研究产生了多种结果。首先,我们发现,即使在以交通为导向的城市,活动的碎片化也是由性别决定的,尤其是在30岁以后,当个人的生命历程发生重大变化时,特别是在照顾责任和家庭地位方面。其次,我们观察到,样本的教育水平和年份也在塑造流动模式中发挥了核心作用。最后,在将原始空间投影到由多重对应分析定义的阶乘空间后,我们的论文通过定义序列距离做出了方法学贡献。这项研究表明,交通政策不应仅仅关注交通方面,还应综合考虑建筑环境、居住地点、性别、公平和个人一生特征。
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European Transport Research Review
European Transport Research Review Engineering-Mechanical Engineering
CiteScore
8.60
自引率
4.70%
发文量
49
审稿时长
13 weeks
期刊介绍: European Transport Research Review (ETRR) is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing original high-quality scholarly research and developments in areas related to transportation science, technologies, policy and practice. Established in 2008 by the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), the Journal provides researchers and practitioners around the world with an authoritative forum for the dissemination and critical discussion of new ideas and methodologies that originate in, or are of special interest to, the European transport research community. The journal is unique in its field, as it covers all modes of transport and addresses both the engineering and the social science perspective, offering a truly multidisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, engineers and policymakers. ETRR is aimed at a readership including researchers, practitioners in the design and operation of transportation systems, and policymakers at the international, national, regional and local levels.
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