Bhuvanachithra Chidambaram

TU Dortmund University | TUD · Traffic and Transport Planning

Individuals with family obligations concurrently perform unpaid tasks. In particular, parents often multitask childcare during leisure, leading to low-quality leisure. In this study, we explored leisure quality by measuring pure and contaminated (i.e., leisure combined with childcare) leisure for German parents (lone versus partnered) by considerin...

Women’s entrenched workforce participation has contributed to the rise in dual-earner households over the last two decades in Germany. In transport research, dual-earner households are gaining more importance over time, as intra-couple interactions play a significant role in housing, mobility and travel behaviour. Various studies on gender differen...

Individuals with young children have additional responsibilities and tend to have different patterns of work-trip mode choice. In this regard, the purpose of the study is to determine if individuals’ commuting mode decisions vary with gender and the presence of young children. In doing so, we develop four separate models for women and men with and...

In this paper, we examine the gender differences (or similarities) by exploring the association between work trip mode choice and five key elements: i) personal socioeconomic status; ii) household attributes, iii) spatial-temporal fixity, iv) partner interaction and v) work hour preferences. We use the German National Time Use Survey 2012 and adopt...

Individuals' participation in daily routine activities varies according to the situations they live in. Gender roles and marital status drive them to take part in various economic, leisure and travel activities. Married (or cohabiting) individuals, in comparison to singles, juggle activities interdependently with their partners' resources and work...

Time use during travel has been the subject of considerable research in recent years thanks to its crucial role in determining the utility of travel time. While most of these studies have documented the effects of demographics and trip characteristics on travel time use, the effect of gender is still ambiguous. To understand the role of gender in t...

Transportation has been recently recognized as a key element in the study of individual Quality of Life (QoL). However, relatively little is known about the interconnectedness between various transport dimensions and wellbeing measures. In scoping the existing literature, the chapter identifies studies reporting on a link between one of the seven t...

1 Travel-based multitasking is the outcome of individuals seeking to make optimal use of the available 2 time. Previous research on travel-based multitasking is equivocal, suggesting that an individual's time use 3 during travel is mediated by trip characteristics. From the perspective of time use research, there are no 4 previous studies that spec...

Traditional transport planning primarily focuses on improving and expanding the road infrastructure networks to ensure faster mobility. Such approach has consequently led to an unfair distribution of accessibility coupled with increased journey lengths, automobileoriented urban sprawl and traffic congestion. While fixating on this limited view, res...

In gender studies on travel and time-use analysis, it has been widely argued that men and women exhibit different commute behaviour. Men’s travel behaviour is characterized by high car access and long commutes with few daily trips, whereas women rely somewhat more often on public transport and take shorter but more frequent and diverse daily trips....

Women's entrenched workforce participation has contributed to the rising dual-earner households over the last two decades in Germany. In the transport research, dual-earner households are gaining more importance than single-earners, as they play a significant role in housing, mobility and travel behaviour. Considerable studies on gender differences...

a b s t r a c t All major Indian cities face a severe transport crisis, with the number of cars on the road increasing every day. Policy makers are trying to keep pace with this growth by supplying more roads, largely neglecting demand-side policy measures. We have developed an economic experiment to investigate behavioral responses of citizens to...

The book “Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources” by Frischmann is one of those rare books that focuses on the demand-side challenges of the infrastructure from the perspective of commons. It highlights the social value of the demand-side issues associated with traditional and non-traditional infrastructures. This book strongly emphas...

An extensive macroscopic and microscopic study of traffic congestion in the city of Hyderabad is provided in this paper. At the macroscopic level, the general factors causing traffic congestion are discussed mainly under three spectrums: physical, behavioural and institutional. At microscopic level, the existing utilisation of road space by heterog...

The transport sector in the Indian Megacity of Hyderabad contributes extensively to climate change through greenhouse gases emitted by vehicles. Though recent research shows that traffic congestion is one of the major contributors to the vehicle emission in the city, they do not provide any concrete methods or primary data to measure and derive the...

The transport sector in the Indian Megacity of Hyderabad, contributes extensively to the climate change through pollution by means of vehicle emissions. The current discourses of Indian urban planning and vehicular pollution abatement largely ignore the human behavioral aspects and mainly focus on the improvement of transport infrastructure. Hence,...