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Some questions persist about ridesourcing services in Mexico after ten years of operation, particularly about the extension, determinants and users of such services. This article is based on the 2020 Census by the National Bureau of Statistics. It is discovered that ridesourcing comprehends one third of all trips taken by taxi, although it is still a minority choice. The most important determinant of use is type of household, as people in non-familiar and extended households are regular users. It is also shown that a great variety of needs and users are catered by such services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have shown that the number of cars, and car use will grow as socioeconomic conditions improve in Latin America. This situation will threaten sustainability in the main cities of the region. This article investigates daily car use determinants for people with access to cars. Urban sustainability would not be so endangered if people with access to cars forego such vehicles for commuting. The article resort to the Population and Housing Census 2020 in Mexico to research how heads of households with access to cars commute in a daily basis. It is discovered that low socio-economic status increases the likelihood of not using the family car for commuting, along with environmental awareness, particularly for affluent heads of households. Therefore, it can be assumed that environmental awareness could refrain car use once national and domestic economies improve in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Urban sprawl has expanded the distances and travel times of people who live and work in cities. In the Metropolitan Area of Santiago de Chile, profound challenges are imposed on its less favored inhabitants since both their income and the territories where they reside reveal a diminished availability of mobility capital. This research seeks to calculate and understand the different costs of mobility, expressed in time and money to commute to work, as an expression of existing urban inequalities in the city. For this, the Socio-Economic Characterization Survey (CASEN) of the Ministry of Social Development of 2015 and 2017 are used, which incorporate questions about people's mobility. From a quantitative approach, the monthly monetary costs of household mobility are defined by determining their percentage in the monetary household income, and a complementary analysis is carried out considering different socioeconomic variables. The results show deep inequalities linked to a greater weight of public transport cost in the income of the most vulnerable, a fact that is consistent with longer commuting times due to the distance between their residence and work centers, higher unemployment, and relatively less private motorization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes for the metropolitan area of Barcelona, the differentiated behavior of the population with respect to daily mobility in a highly exceptional situation: the health and social crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research is based on the analysis of the validations of the transport tickets on weekdays to access the railway transport modes (metro, suburban railway and tram), in relation to the mean income of the area where each of the accesses is made. The research starts from the hypothesis according to which the capacity of individuals to manage their mobility in the city is directly related to their income and social capital, that is, their greater or lesser vulnerability. The evidence provided confirms that during the period under study people living in vulnerable areas have been able to reduce their mobility less and more slowly than the rest of the population. This shows how, in a context in which low mobility becomes a precious resource when it comes to protecting one's health and well-being, the inability to reduce daily commuting becomes both cause and expression of social exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study aim is to analyze the role of active vs. passive commuting in a model with socio economic influences, father and mother professional level, psychological influences, as perceived health, and demographic variables as gender and age related with physical activity. A representative sample of Aragón (3 %), 1618 adolescents (734 girls) between 1º and 4º years of Education Secondary Obligatory (Mean age = 14.46, SD = 1.28 years) completed questionnaires to assess the studied variables. The mixture structural modeling multigroup with known classes shows that the perceived health of active commuting adolescents are strongly related with physical activity and socioeconomic status. Gender and age are related with physical activity in sedentary and active commuting groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article evaluates labor commutation from different territories of Chilean Patagonia towards its Nodcd Centers: Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Coyhaique and Punta Arenas. Commutation is verified in low qualified jobs, with cost of transport and distance being clear determinants; furthermore, the greater population size of the Centers is a pull factor when distances are smaller. At the same time, although some common patterns are obtained between Valdivia, Osorno and Puerto Montt, others have a distinct impact. Finally, all these factors allow us to outline territorially differentiated proposals for public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work the normative transition of a cohort of secondary school students from Alcalá de Guadaíra that start college education in Seville is examined. The evolution of the social network of the cohort of students together with the changes experienced in the composition and structure of their personal networks is analyzed. The longitudinal tracking is developed over 17 months when respondents (n = 57) begin to distribute their time between the town in which they live and the city where they study, so there is an increase in the frequency of commuting to the capital. This is one of the first studies collecting information from the personal networks of the members of a complete social network, and combining both personal and sociocentric indicators in the analysis. With models for the longitudinal analysis of social networks, using the RSIENA software, we found that average betweenness of personal networks has a significant effect on the social network of students completing secondary education. The average betweenness also seems to influence the change rate in the sense of community with the city of residence. We conclude by proposing that the decoupling of relations, as well as active competition between multiple relationships, are two key mechanisms of changes in the structure of personal networks in the process of ecological transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Urban transport systems impose barriers to physically impaired people, which impedes them from normally carrying out daily activities such as visiting the doctor, studying or working. This situation can exacerbate a vicious circle in which these people evidence lower levels of education and income and, in general, lower welfare. Objective. Perform a characterization of the physically impaired people in Tunja to know their commute patterns and problems of accessibility to public transport. Materials and methods. The research, located in Tunja, was based on two surveys: a household survey of transport applied in 2012, which allowed to know the households' economic activities as well as the commute patterns of the city of Tunja; and a specific survey conducted with physically impaired people in 2014, which enabled us to identify the main problems they must face when commuting. Results. A socioeconomic characterization of the physically impaired population in Tunja was made. It was found that 95 % of this population have difficulties to commute in the city, and 88 % use the public transportation service, especially taxis, which increases their transport costs. Conclusions. This work can be considered as a first contribution to the development of empirical research related to the commute patterns and problems of the physically impaired people in the city of Tunja, Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes and explores a comparison of the profiles of new admissions, students who began their bachelor's studies in autumn 2014 at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) Azcapotzalco and Cuajimalpa campuses. The authors are interested in underlining from a sociological perspective the students' specificities by campus, the characteristics of their places of residence and their commutes, their educational backgrounds, academic practices in high school, their cultural consumption habits, and their use of the Internet. Finally, the authors wanted to determine the cultural and material resources available to them that support their university studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Households' functional relationships in distant areas of multicentric metropolitan regions: radial versus tangential mobility patterns. This paper aims in analyzing work-related (commuting and business) mobility patterns evolution of distant areas of Multicentric Metropolitan Regions. By focusing on the Madrid and Castilla La Mancha regions, household' functional relationships changes (1981-2012) are analysed: radial with the metropolis and tangential within the Castilla La Mancha region, paying spatial attention to those ones toward its regional capital. The empirical results show that despite de relevance of intraprovincial and radial flows, tangential linkages start acquiring importance in the mobility patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Work commutation is understood as the separation of working and consumption places. It is usually studied as a male phenomenon and/or in relation to local economies. It emerges as a relevant question when asking about the situation in which the women of the Bio Bio Region are to be found: How many women move and where? Which are the economic and working sectors that demand them? The data, analyzed from a theoretical and conceptual framework derived from a gender perspective, offer new questions to better understand the personal, social, cultural and labor factors that condition the probabilities of women moving from one place to another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Active commuting (walking or cycling) to school contributes to increase physical activity levels in young people. Meteorological conditions might have a remarkable influence on this behaviour. Objective: The aim is to study the impact of the rainfall and seasonality on the mode of commuting to primary school or secondary school in children and adolescents from Granada. Methods: A total of 384 students (166 children and 218 adolescents) between 8-18 years from 2 different schools (primary and secondary schools) of Granada took part in the research. Participants filled a questionnaire about their weekly pattern on the mode of commuting to school in the three seasons of the academic year. Data about the rainfall in those three weeks was obtained from the National Agency of Meteorology. The association between rainfall and seasonality with mode of commuting to school was studied by McNemar test. Results: No significant associations were spotted between the rainfall and the seasonality with mode of commuting in children and adolescents (p>0.05) except for: a) a positive effect of rainfall in the percentage of children who usually walked to school between a rainy day and a non-rainy day in spring (p=0.031) and b) a weak effect of the seasonality on the percentage of children and adolescents who usually walk between autumn and winter (45.8% and 37.5% walk to school) and between autumn and spring (59.7% and 56%) respectively (p=0.07). Conclusions: The meteorological conditions do not seem to influence the mode of commuting to school in children and adolescents from Granada, which might indicate that this behavior keeps a constant pattern throughout the whole academic year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of Long Distance Commuting ( LDC) has increased as a result of the continuous reduction of transport costs. This paperformalizes the relationship between LDC and wage through a job search model where a commuting time variable is included. The paper proposes that LDC be compensated in wage and be increasing in distance, and that the regions which receive more commuters pay a higher premium wage. The results suggest an average premium of 19% for LDC. However, the applicable rate depends on the workplace location of each commuter, and thus it might be as high as 40%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Active commuting to school is associated to higher levels of physical activity among children. Family factors may influence on this behaviour. Objective: The objective was to analyze the association between parents' occupational activity and parents' mode of commuting to work with the mode of commuting of their children. Methods: A total of 721 families from 4 primary schools in the province of Granada participated in this study. Families reported a questionnaire about mode of commuting of their children, parents' occupational activity and mode of commuting to work, distance and travel time to school. Associations between family's occupational activity and mode of commuting to work with mode of commuting to school of their children were examined using binary logistic regression analysis adjusting for age and children's distance to school. Results: Children whose parents did not work used to engage in higher levels of active commuting to school than those whose parents worked (p = 0,023; OR: 2,67; 95% CI: 1,14-6,23). Children whose parents used to commute actively to work used to engage in higher levels of active commuting to school than those whose parents both used passive modes of commuting to work (p = 0,014; OR: 6,30; 95% CI: 1,45-27,26). Conclusion: Family factors are related to mode of commuting to school in children: Unemployed families and employed families where parent are active commuters to work are more used to have children that commuted to school using active modes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fundamental diseconomy in the large metropolitan areas is the significant and sustained increase in travel time incurred by its inhabitants daily. Since a portion of the energy consumed in the daily mobility does not necessarily translate into individual and collective wealth, entropic systems have a feature which, as discussed for the case of Bogotá, does not have metropolitan institutions with the ability to redirect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are the need to generate cartographic models faced to the visualization of the daily mobility of the population of Santiago de Chile, which is framed inside the subjective and personal landscape of the above mentioned mobility defines and determines. It is possible to demonstrate a close link with urban problems that they tend to transform in endemic, such as the transport congestion, the demographic concentration and consequently, the decrease of the mobility. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to have information originated from direct sources linked to the cognitive, perceptive and appraisal processes that are deeply rooted in the context of the subjectivity and routine character in which the urban inhabitants take its decisions of spatial behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to analyse the associations of personal and environmental factors with mode of commuting to school in children. A total of 745 schoolchildren (363 girls) aged 6-12 years from the province of Granada (Spain) participated in the study. Participants completed a questionnaire about mode of commuting to school, personal factors (i.e. barriers to walking to school, enjoyment on the way to school, who they go to school with) and environmental factors (i.e. time from house to school, distance to school, and safety on the way). A total of 57.2% children walked to school, 40.3% used the car, 1.2% motorcycled, .7% used the bus and .6% bicycled. Travelling alone to school [Odds ratio (OR), 10.049; 95% confidence interval (CI), 3.950 - 25.567], living close to the school (OR, 16.439; 95%CI, 5.717 - 47.271) and perceiving a safe way to school (OR, 2.365; 95%CI, 1.665 - 3.360) were associated with active commuting to school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The urban sprawl of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) in recent decades has been linked to its pattern of functional specialisation and its low density. This urban model has been closely associated with the use of the private automobile, which contradicts public policy's stated aim of ensuring sustainable mobility patterns by focusing on modes of transport that are more socially- and environmentally-friendly. This article analyses the impact of the traditional mobility patterns, which are largely based on the use of private cars, upon the increasingly suburban areas of the BMR, and highlights the various instruments that can be used to meet the new challenges posed by the need for sustainable mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the configuration of living spaces from commuting patterns in Chapadmalal (Municipality of General Pueyrredon, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Everyday living space and territorial mobility are the central concepts. Raw data was used: the living spaces were categorized by their jurisdictional area and by the locations used. Different spatial configurations, and distinct kinds of space use were obtained, where the socio-demographic characteristics of the subjects are linked to the specificities of each category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]