Abstract
This paper aims to identify some characteristics on time use patterns underlying non-workdays shopping travel behaviours. The analysis focuses on the prism height which plays an important role on decision making of time allocation of activity and travel linkages. Kofu shopper panel data are empirically examined: stability of the prism height over nine waves, distibutions of the time space paths in three waves from 1994 to 1996, cross-tabulations of time use patterns by path type, state dependencies in activity duration with relation to the changes of prism height over three waves, causality among factors determining time-use patterns. These observations can indicate that almost stable prism heights significantly determine time use patterns by path type. The LISREL model was also developed for representing the causality between prism height and other variables.
