ISSN 2319-5347, ISI Impact Factor: 0.763

VOLUME 03 NO. 04 OCTOBER 2014: 

Title:      Socioeconomic characteristics of travel behavior in Khulna Metropolitan City, Bangladesh
Authors:    M. A. Rahman, S. A. Ali, Q. S. Hossain
Abstract:  Urban transportation problem has become one of the main problems faced by cities in developing countries. The rapid growth of motorization and city structure, such as mixed land-use and the increasing rate of urbanization are some causes of this phenomenon. Travel survey identifies the start and end of a trip, the trip purpose and the mode of travel as well as the socio-economic characteristics of the trip makers. Travel characteristics are very important resources that give valuable information about travel behavior of people over a period of time across the population. Household interviews were used through questionnaire survey on demographic and socio-economic characteristics in khulna metropolitan city. The results of the analysis show that people with higher income and more automobile availability make more travel than people with low incomeand less automobile availability. The home-based trips take the largest percentage (50%) of people in the study area. The result also indicates that the shopping trips (15%) contribute higher among different trip purpose. The results also show that about 57% of individuals are between 20-50 years. The analysis of this paper reveals that the travel behavior in the study area is quite similar to the middle sized city in asian countries.

Keywords:   Khulna Metropolitan City, Household Survey, Travel Behavior, Socio-Economic Data
Page no:     321-325

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