Activity-Travel Behaviour, and Daily and Global Well-Being

Abstract

Using a hierarchical SEM and multidimensional 3-week household time-use and activity diary, this study investigated how interaction of individuals’ daily travel parameters, time-use and activity participation and percentage of undertaking passive leisure within various activity participation, life circumstances, and geographical conditions shape individuals’ daily and global subjective well-being. This study confirms that life circumstances insignificantly shape people’s well-being as argued as well in previous studies. Moreover, daily subjective well-being or people daily context in which contains how people organizes their daily activity-travel behaviour positively shape people life satisfaction as hypothesised. This study also confirms that different daily activity participation tends to shape different level of people’s daily subjective well-being. Spending more time-use for leisure, sport and grocery shopping tends to positively correlate with having better daily subjective well-being. Having better mental and social health are found to positively shape people’s daily and global well-being, respectively. For policy implementations, this study can say that providing more opportunities for undertaking out-of-home activities such as out-of-home leisure, sport and grocery shopping with time-use policy and denser land use planning.

Time-Use and Spatio-Temporal Variables Influence on Physical Activity Intensity, Physical and Social Health of Travelers

“…Sometimes transport affects health, whereas health influences transport decisions [26]. This means that health is also a part of capability constraints, while participating in an activity which can influence activity-travel patterns [18]. Health indicators will expose an additional dimension of individual capability factors.…”

“…An individual has needs, desires, and available resources such as a car and money and wants to travel and participate in an activity at different locations. However, due to physical (e.g., broken legs, blindness, sickness and disorder), social (e.g., family/friends pressure), or mental health (e.g., stress), they may be unable to travel and participate in an activity [7,18,27]. The conceptual model/framework for the interaction of activity-travel participation and health is shown in Figure 1.…”