Exploring university students’ activities and travels based on travel diary

Abstract

Knowledge on travel behaviors is usually accumulated using data from developed countries, while it is understand that developing countries have different characteristics and situations from developed countries. University students are one of the potential groups to start from to study travel behavior in developing countries. This study aims to explore activities conducted by university students with focus on their travel needs. Activities from four hundreds student in ten universities were collected in the city of Bandung, Indonesia using two days travel diary. Activities and travel characteristics of students are examined by considering gender, type of university (public and private), and type of day (weekday and weekend). Models are able to explain the student characteristics in term of travel and activity characteristics, i.e. number of trips per day, travel durations, number of activities, length of duration of activities, as well as travel costs.