TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Analysis on residents' travel activity pattern in historic urban areas: a case study of historic urban area of Yangzhou, China
JO  - Mathematical problems in engineering
A1  - Ye, Mao
A1  - Yu, Miao
A1  - Guo, Xiucheng
A1  - Liu, Yingshun
A1  - Li, Zhibin
SP  - e620973
EP  - e620973
VL  - 2013
IS  - 
N2  - Travel behaviors and activity patterns in the historic urban area of a city are expected to be different from the overall situations in the city area. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the residents' travel activity patterns in historic urban area. Based on survey data conducted in the historic urban area of Yangzhou, the travel activities of local residents in a whole day were classified into five types of patterns. The multinomial logit (MNL) model was developed to evaluate the impacts of explanatory variables on the choices of activity patterns. The results showed that the choice of activity pattern was significantly impacted by five contributing factors including the gender, age, occupation, car ownership, and number of electric bikes in household. The other variables, which were the family population, preschoolers, number of conventional bikes in household, motorcycle ownership, and income, were found to be not significantly related to the choice of activities. The results of this study from historic urban area were compared to findings of previous studies from overall urban area. The comparison showed that the impacts of factors on activity pattern in the historic urban area were different from those in the overall area. <br><br>FINDINGS of this study provide important suggestions for the policy makings to improve the traffic situations in historic urban areas of cities.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1024-123X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/620973
ID  - ref1
ER  -