Occupation and the journey-to-work: Some further analysis

Gera, Surendra; Kühn, Peter

doi:10.1016/0038-0121(81)90053-7

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“…However, occupation may also have an impact on one's propensity to commute. Gera and Kuhn (1981) also found that some occupational groups, particularly skilled blue collar workers, traveled considerably longer distances than the spatial structure implied they must. Cubukgil and Miller (1982) attribute this to both the high income of skilled blue collar workers (the same as middle managers and semiprofessional) and to a greater propensity to commute.…”

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Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region

Davis¹

2000

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“…This may be a result of occupation's influence on income, on where one might find work, and where one may desire to live. For example, Gera and Kuhn (1981) demonstrate that the spatial structure of Toronto in 1971 allowed blue collar workers to commute shorter distances than white collar workers.…”

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Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region

Davis¹

2000

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“…Mean accident occurrence time was 23 min whilst mean distance was 11.6 km. Several studies [4,9] have noted that there are relationships between travel distance, occupation and traffic accident during commuting. Evidences have shown that blue-collar groups tend to use motorcycle to travel to work, often becoming the victim of traffic accidents.…”

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“…The more we travel, the higher probability of an accident occurs. Although traffic injury was not included in the study, Gera and Kuhn [9] covered occupation and journey to work, focusing on economic factor in a journey made.…”

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Exposure Work Commuting: Case Study among Commuting Accidents in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Jamaluddin¹,

Sim²,

Shabadin³

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Traffic accidents caused the most accidental deaths at work in Malaysia. The SOCSO (Social Security Organization) reported that the number of deaths due to commuting accidents was 760, nearly two times more than deaths caused by accidents that happened at the workplace (471 deaths). The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship of socio-demographic background and the risk exposure of the drivers during their work commuting trips. The study was based on compensation claims to SOCSO where data were extracted from "Form 21" provided by SOCSO. A total of 377 respondents were selected through systematic random sampling method from a list of SOCSO claimants. It was found that majority of the traffic accidents (83%) involved males and most of them (92.2%) were on motorcycles. Male drivers have an average driving experience of 10.7 years and 8.6 years for females. The estimation of the travelled distance for the sample from home to the workplace is 0.65~131 km. Mean accident occurrence time was 23 min whilst mean distance was 11.6 km. The multiple regression analysis showed that the accident distance was affected by the age of driver, actual travel distance, travel objective and speed.

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“…While generally acknowledged to be of importance, the implications of the journey to work upon residential location are not extensively researched because data on work site location are not routinely included in Census publications and because such data, when they are presented as part of Tract information, are not in a form that makes detailed analysis possible. Special data for Canada have recently been analysed by Gera and Kuhn (1981) and there is various other work from the U.S. (for example, Duncan, 1956). Changes in the location of work sites would undoubtedly have implications to residential patterning and recent u. s. literature is concerned with these developments.…”

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Socioeconomic status and the concentric zonal structure of Canadian cities

Pineo

1988

Canadian Review of Sociology

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La plupart des rechercheurs qui étudient la structure des régions metropolitaines canadiennes ont utilisé les données du recensement du Canada qui ont été groupées en secteurs de recensement. Dans cette recherche un type alternatif de données est utilisé, qui vient ?un sondage qui donne les renseignements sur les répondants individuels. Les comparaisons sont faites des caractéristiques des répondants qui demeurent au centre‐ville, les plus vieux faubourgs et les nouveaux faubourgs. Comme dans la recherche précédente, on trouve que le statut socio‐économique augmente avec la distance du zone central de la ville. Les effets sont moins forts que ceux que ľon trouve dans les différents stages de la vie et plus forts que ceux de ľethnie ou du lieu de naissance. Le niveau de revenu des répondants démontre un rapport plus marqué que ?autres mesures de statut socio‐économique, de profession et ?éducation. Tous les liens, pourtant, sont très modestes en comparaison avec ceux que ľon trouve en analysant les données des secteurs de recensement. Most researchers studying the structure of Canadian metropolitan areas have used data from the Census of Canada which has been grouped into Census tracts. In this research an alternative type of data is used from a large national survey which provides information on individual respondents. Comparisons are made of the characteristics of respondents living in the central city, the older suburbs and the new suburbs. As in earlier research, socioeconomic status is found to increase with distance from the city core. The pattern is less strong than that found for life cycle stage, and stronger than that for ethnicity or birthplace. The income level of the respondents shows a stronger relationship than the other measures of socioeconomic status, occupation and education. All the retionships, however, are found to be extremely modest, in contrast to those found in analysis of the census tract data.

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Occupation and the journey-to-work: Some further analysis

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region

Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region

Exposure Work Commuting: Case Study among Commuting Accidents in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Socioeconomic status and the concentric zonal structure of Canadian cities

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