Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Online ISSN : 1881-1124
ISSN-L : 1341-8521
Urban / Regional Planning and Environment
Tackling the Impact of Travel Time on the Social Health Dimension for Bangkokian Commuter
Watchara SATTAYAPRASERTPawinee IAMTRAKULChukiat NURATCH
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2010 Volume 8 Pages 1081-1093

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The quality of life plays an important role as an urban indicator to assess the liveability of the city and urban environment. However, due to the development of urban area in several aspects has resulted to the changes of life style of people, it is undoubted that time consuming for leisure activity or family hour has been major replaced by travel time. This study aims to assess the impact of travel time on quality of life of people in term of the social health dimension which can be measured on the basis of travel behavior. The results indicated that the time consuming for different trip purposes on a variety of modes have different magnitude on the quality of life of people. Therefore, this study can reflect the magnitude of travel time impact as an alternative indicator for sustain social welfare improvement.
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