Mobidrive - Dynamic and routines of travel behaviour - pilot study "Rhythmics"

Project partners

PTV AG Karlsruhe
Institut für Stadtbauwesen, RWTH Aachen (ISB)

IVT staff

Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen
Arnd König
Stefan Schönfelder

Client

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Germany), represented by TÜV-Rheinland / Berlin-Brandenburg

Duration

01/09/1998 - 31/08/2000

Abstract

The basic aim of the project was to capture the rythms of daily life, both with respect to time use, but also with respect to the spatial patterns. The empirical core of the project was a six-week travel diary, which was conducted with 360 persons in Karlsruhe and Halle. Once recruited the respondents showed no fatigue in their trip reporting, which reproduced the locally known patterns with regards to mode choice, trip numbers and activity purposes.

The analysis of this data set, now complemented by a comparable data set from Switzerland (2003 Thurgau) has provided a whole range of new insights, for example into the shape and size of human activity spaces, the rate of behavioural innovation, the patterns of similarity between daily patterns, the importance of prior commitment to mobility tools and contact channels (mobile phone, email) for travel. It has also allowed a whole range of new modelling methods to be tested, in particular complex discrete choice models acounting for temporal and spatial autocorrelations or the role of the time-space prisms

The data is freely available from the data archive of the Institute for further research.

Intermediate reports

• Technical report (PDF 1.4MB)
• Diary Form (PDF 0.8MB)
  

Report

Zimmermann, A., K.W. Axhausen, K.J. Beckmann, M. Düsterwald, E.Fraschini, T. Haupt, A. König, A. Kübel, G. Rindsfüser, R. Schlich, S.Schönfelder, A. Simma and T. Wehmeier (2001) Mobidrive: Dynamik und Routinen im Verkehrsverhalten: Pilotstude Rhythmik, report to the Ministry of Science and Technology, PTV AG, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Strassen- und Eisenbahnbau (ETH Zürich) and Institut für Stadtbauwesen (RWTH Aachen), Karlsruhe, Zürich and Aachen.

Diaries

• PTV AG, B. Fell, S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2000) Mobidrive questionaires, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 52, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
  
• Löchl, M., S. Schönfelder, R. Schlich, T. Buhl, P. Widmer and K.W. Axhausen (2005) Stabilität des Verkehrsverhaltens, final report for SVI 2001/514, Schriftenreihe, 1120, Bundesamt für Strassen, UVEK, Bern. Download
• Diaries: Route diary (short version)
• Questionnaires: Household questionnaire, Persons questionnaire, Recruitment questionnaire, Additional questionnaire

Documentation

• Chalasani, V.S. and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Mobidrive: A six-week travel diary, Travel survey metadata series, 2, Insitute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• König, A., R. Schlich, A. Aschwanden, A. Kaufmann and K.W. Axhausen (2000) Mobidrive: Data format guide, Arbeitsberichte Verkehr- und Raumplanung, 35, IVT, ETH, Zürich. Download

Online data

Online data, documentation and access to the data:
http://tda.ethz.ch

Publications and papers based on Mobidrive data

• Axhausen, K.W., A. Zimmermann, S. Schönfelder, G. Rindsfüser and T. Haupt (2002) Observing the rhythms of daily life: A six-week travel diary, Transportation, 29 (2) 95-124. Download
  
• Axhausen, K.W., M. Löchl, R. Schlich, T. Buhl and P. Widmer (2007) Fatigue in long-duration travel diaries, Transportation, 34 (2) 143-160. Download
  
• Bastin F. and C. Cirillo (2010) Reducing simulation bias in mixed logit model estimation, Journal of choice modelling, 3 (2) 71-88. Download
  
• Bastin F., C. Cirillo and Ph.L. Toint (2006) An adaptive Monte-Carlo algorithm for computing Mixed logit estimators, Computational Management Science, 3 (1) 55-79. Download
  
• Bayarma, A., R. Kitamura and Y.O. Susilo (2007) Recurrence of Daily Travel Patterns: Stochastic Process Approach to Multiday Travel Behavior, Transportation Research Record, 2021, 55-63. Download
• Bhat, C.R. , S. Srinivasan and K.W. Axhausen (2004) An analysis of multiple interactivity durations using a unifying multivariate hazard model, paper presented at the 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2004. Download
• Bhat, C.R., A. Sivakumar and K.W. Axhausen (2003) An analysis of the impact of information and communication technologies on non-maintenance shopping activities, Transport Research, 37B (10) 857-881. Download
  
• Bhat, C.R., T. Frusti, H. Zhao, S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Intershopping duration: An analysis using multi-week data, Transportation Research, 38B (1) 39-60. Download
  
• Chalasani, V.S. and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Mobidrive 1999, Travel Survey Metadata Series, 2, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
  
• Chalasani, V.S., Ø. Engebretsen, J.M. Denstadli and K.W. Axhausen (2005) Precision of geocoded locations and network distance estimates, Journal of Transportation and Statistics, 8 (2) 1-15. Download
  
• Chalasani,V.S., S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2002) Archiving travel data: The Mobidrive example, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 129, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Stassen- und Eisenbahnbau (IVT), ETH, Zürich. Download
• Cherchi, E. and C. Cirillo (2008) A mixed logit mode choice model on panel data: accounting for systematic and random variations on responses and preferences, paper presented at the 87^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D. C., January 2008. 
• Cherchi E. and C. Cirillo (2010) Validation and forecasts in models estimated from multi-days travel survey, Transportation Research Record, 2175, 57-64. Download
  
• Chikaraishi, M., A. Fujiwara, J. Zhang, K. W. Axhausen (2008) Exploring Variation Properties of Departure Time Choice Behavior Using Multilevel Analysis Approach, Paper submitted to the 88^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D. C., January 2009. Download
• Cirillo C. and K.W. Axhausen (2010) Dynamic model of activity type choice and scheduling, Transportation, 37 (1) 15-38. Download
  
• Cirillo, C. and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Dynamic model of activity type choice and scheduling, paper presented at the European Transport Conference, Strasbourg, October 2006.
• Cirillo, C. and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Evidence on the distribution of values of travel time savings from a six-week diary, Transportation Research A, 40A (5) 444-457. Download
  
• Cirillo, C. and K.W. Axhausen (2002) Comparing urban activity travel behaviour, paper presented at the 81^th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2002. Download
• Cirillo, C. and K.W. Axhausen (2002) Mode choice in complex tours, paper presented at ETC 2002, Cambridge, September 2002. Download
• Cirillo, C., F. Koppelman and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Modelling activity travel scheduling for workers, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 215, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Ehreke, I. (2008) Analyse der Zielwahl im motorisierten Individualverkehr: Eine Betrachtung der Auftretenshäufigkeit routinisierter Fahrten, Diplomarbeit, Fachbereiche Geowissenschaften,  FU Berlin, Berlin.
• Farber, S., A. Paez and K.W. Axhausen (2008) Any Given Monday - an exploration of the stability of long term activity patterns, presentation at the 2008 AAG, April 2008. Download
• Flamm, M. and V. Kaufmann (2006) The concept of personal network of usual places as a tool for analysing human activity spaces: A quantitative exploration, paper presented at the 6^th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, June 2006. Download
• Fraschini, E. and K.W. Axhausen (2001) Day on day dependencies in travel: First results using ARIMA modelling, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 63, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Strassen- und Eisenbahnbau, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Frusti,T., C.R. Bhat and K.W. Axhausen (2002) An exploratory analysis of fixed commitments in individual activity-travel patterns, Transportation Research Record, 1807, 101-108. Download
  
• Gärling, T. and K.W. Axhausen (2003) Habitual travel choice, Transportation, 30 (1) 1-11. Download
  
• IVT, PTV AG, Institut für Stadtbauwesen der RWTH Aachen (1999) Mobidrive, Dynamik und Routinen im Verkehrsverhalten - Pilotstudie Rhythmik, Technischer Bericht 1999, PTVAG, Karlsruhe.
• Jara-Díaz, S.R., M.A. Munizaga,P. Greeven and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Estimating the value of work and leisure, Arbeitsberichte Verkehr und Raumplanung, 353, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Kato, H. and K. W. Axhausen (2005) Valuation of leisure time of non-work days: comparative discrete-continuous analysis, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 325, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Kitamura, R. and Susilo, Y.O. (2006) Does a grande latte really stir up the gridlock? Stops in commute journeys and incremental travel, paper presented at the 85^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2006. Download
  
• Kitamura, R., T. Yamamoto, Y.O. Susilo and K.W. Axhausen (2006) On the day-to-day variability of prism vertex location, Transportation Research A, 40A (3) 259-279. Download
  
• Kitamura, R., T. Yamamoto, Y.O. Susilo and K.W. Axhausen (2005) How Routine Is a Routine? An Analysis of the Day-to-Day Variability in Prism Vertex Location, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 299, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• König, A. (2000) Graphic description of travel behavior using the multiweek Mobidrive travel diary, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 50, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Stassen- und Eisenbahnbau (IVT), ETH, Zürich. Download
• König, A. and K.W. Axhausen (2001) Modelling mode choice in the Mobidrive survey, presentation at the 1^st Swiss Transport Planning Conference, Ascona, March 2001. Download
• König, A. and K.W. Axhausen (2001) Verkehrsentscheidungen in Mobidrive, Stadt Region Land, 71, 165-176, Institut für Stadtbauwesen, RWTH Aachen, Aachen. Download
• König, A., R. Schlich and K.W. Axhausen (2000) Deskriptive Darstellung der Befragungsergebnisse des Projektes Mobidrive, Arbeitsberichte Verkehr- und Raumplanung, 37, IVT, ETH, Zürich. Download
• Löchl, M., K.W. Axhausen and S. Schönfelder (2005) Analysing Swiss longitudinal travel data, Conference Paper, STRC, Monte Verità. Download
• Machguth H. and M. Löchl (2004) Geokodierung 6-Wochenbefragung Thurgau 2003, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 219, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Madre, J.-L., K.W. Axhausen und W. Brög (2007), Immobility in travel diary surveys: an overview, Transportation, 34 (1) 102-128.
• Madre, J.-L., K.W. Axhausen and M.O. Gascon (2003) Immobility: A microdata analysis, Paper presented at 10^th IATBR Conference, Lucerne, August 2003. Download
• PTV AG, B. Fell, S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2000) Mobidrive questionaires,Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 52, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Stassen- und Eisenbahnbau (IVT), ETH, Zürich. Download
• Rai, R.K., M. Balmer , M. Rieser, V.S. Vaze, S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2007) Capturing human activity spaces: New geometries, Transportation Research Record, 2021, 70-80. Download
  
• Richardson, A.J. (2003) Temporal variability of car usage as an input for the design of Before & After studies, Transportation Research Record, 1855, 112-120. Download
• Schlich, R. (2004) Verhaltenshomogene Gruppen in Längsschnitterhebungen, Dissertation, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Schlich, R. (2001) Measurement issues in identifying variability in travel behaviour, paper presented at the 1^st Swiss Transport Research Conference, Monte Verita, Ascona, March 2001. Download
• Schlich, R. and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Analysing interpersonal variability for homogeneous groups of travellers, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 296, IVT. ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Schlich, R. and K.W. Axhausen (2003) Habitual travel behaviour: Evidence from a six-week diary, Transportation, 30 (1) 13-36. Download
  
• Schlich, R., A. König and K.W. Axhausen (2000) Stabilität und Variabilität im Verkehrsverhalten, Strassenverkehrstechnik, 44 (9) 431-440. Download
  
• Schlich, R., S. Schönfelder, S. Hanson and K.W. Axhausen (2004) The structures of leisure travel: Temporal and spatial variability, Transport Reviews, 24 (2) 219-237. Download
  
• Schlich, R., S. Schönfelder, S. Hanson and K.W. Axhausen (2002) Leisure travel in a historical perspective - Changes in the structures of time and space use, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 107, IVT, ETH, Zürich. Download
• Schönfelder, S. (2003) Between routines and variety seeking: The characteristics of locational choice in daily travel, paper presented at the 10^th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Lucerne, August 2003. Download
• Schönfelder, S. (2001) Some notes on space, location and travel behaviour, paper presented at the 1^st Swiss Transport Research Conference, Monte Verita, Ascona, March 2001. Download
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Structure and innovation of human activity spaces, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 258, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2003) Activity spaces: Measures of social exclusion?, Transport Policy, 10 (4) 273-286. Download
  
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2003) On the variability of human activity spaces, in M. Koll-Schretzenmayr, M. Keiner and G. Nussbaumer (eds.) The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning, 237-262, Springer, Heidelberg.
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2002) Measuring the size and structure of human activity spaces the longitudinal perspective, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 135, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2001) Mobidrive - Längsschnitterhebungen zum individuellen Verkehrsverhalten: Perspektiven für raum-zeitliche Analysen, in M. Schrenk (ed.) Tagungsband CORP 2001, 2, 315-321, Technische Universität, Wien. Download
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2001) Modelling the rhythms of travel using survival analysis, in C. Kaspar, C. Laesser and T. Bieger (eds.) Jahrbuch 2000/2001 Schweizerische Verkehrswirtschaft, 137-162, SVWG, St. Gallen. Download
• Schönfelder, S. and K.W. Axhausen (2000) Periodizität im Verkehrsverhalten: Erste Ergebnisse mit Überlebenszeitmodellen, Stadt Region Land, 69, 131-144, Institut für Stadtbauwesen, RWTH Aachen. Download
• Schönfelder, S. and U. Samaga (2003) Where do you want to go today? - More observations on daily mobility, paper presented the 3^rd Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, March 2003. Download
• Simma, A. and K.W. Axhausen (2001) Successive days, related travel behaviour?, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 62, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Strassen- und Eisenbahnbau, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Singhi, P. (2001) Analysis of joint trips using C in Mobidrive, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 87, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Stassen- und Eisenbahnbau (IVT), ETH, Zürich. Download
• Sivakumar, A. (2005) Towards a comprehensive, unified, framework for analyzing spatial location choice, Dissertation, Universita of Texas, Austin. Download
• Srivastava G. and S. Schönfelder (2003) On the temporal variation of human activity spaces, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 196, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Susilo, Y.O. (2005) The Short-term Variability and the Long-term Changes of Individual Spatial Behaviour in Urban Areas, Dissertation, Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. Download
• Susilo, Y.O. and K.W. Axhausen (2007) How firm are you? A study of the stability of individual activity-travel-location patterns using the Herfindahl-Hirschman-Index, paper presented at the 11^th World Conference of Tranport Research, Berkeley, June 2007. Download
• Susilo, Y.O. and R. Kitamura (2005) An analysis of the day-to-day variability in the individual's action space: An exploration of the six-week Mobidrive travel diary data, Transportation Research Record, 1902, 124-133. Download
  
• Tarigan, A.K.M. and R. Kitamura (2009) On Week-to-Week Leisure Trip Frequency and Its Variability, Transportation Research Record, 2135, 43-51. Download
• Tarigan, A.K.M, S. Fujii and R. Kitamura (2012) Intrapersonal variability in leisure activity-travel patterns: the case of one-worker and two-worker households, Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research, 4, 1-13. Download
• Tazul, I. (2010) Unraveling the Relationship between Trip Chaining and Mode Choice using Structural Equation Modeling, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Download
• Vaze, V.S., S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2005) Continuous space representations of human activity spaces, Arbeitsbericht Verkehr- und Raumplanung, 295, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Vij, A., A. Carrel and J.L. Walker (2011) Capturing Modality Styles Using Behavioral Mixture Models and Longitudinal Data, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. Download
  
• Waldner, U., H. Machguth, S. Simonet und K.W. Axhausen (2005) Geokodierung von Adressen: Methodik und Erfolgsquoten bei unterschiedlichsten Datenquellen, Arbeitsbericht Polyprojekt Zukunft urbane Kulturlandschaften, 3, NSL, ETH Zürich, Zürich. Download
• Zimmermann, A., R. Schlich, S. Schönfelder und K. W. Axhausen (2001) Werthaltungen und Verkehrsverhalten - Empirische Ergebnisse in der Längsschnitterhebung Mobiplan, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 94, Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Stassen- und Eisenbahnbau (IVT), ETH, Zürich. Download

Website

http://www.ptv.de/mobidrive/