Excess Commuting and Commuting Economy: Peak and Off‐Peak Variation in Travel Efficiency Measures

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Excess Commuting and Commuting Economy: Peak and Off‐Peak Variation in Travel Efficiency Measures

Cohen, Simon / Yannis, George

In recent years, attention is drawn to the empirical difference between observed travel patterns and those necessitated by the job and housing distribution in urban areas. In the academic literature, this issue has been investigated extensively within the context of the excess commuting and commuting economy frameworks in city‐regions. However, one area that has received considerably less attention is the case of off‐peak travel, which is used as a proxy for non‐work travel. Accordingly, this chapter specifically addresses this period using the city‐region of Dublin, Ireland, as a case study. The approach uses data from an urban traffic simulation model to determine the minimum, maximum and random travel costs for the study area, which are compared with observed costs. The results show that non‐work travel is associated with more efficient travel behavior driven by the intermixing of land use arrangements associated with these trip types and the transport network.