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TITLE : PERCEPTION OF WOMEN TRAVEL BEHAVIOR IN HOT TRAFFIC CITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO CHENNAI  
AUTHORS : Stalin .R      Hansa Lysander Manohar            
ABSTRACT :

Nowadays women cannot afford to take longer work trips due to the nature of their physique and the need to allocate more time to their families and also the working age women make more trips but fewer miles and minutes than their male counterparts, they are expected to have an increasing impact on travel demand. While analyzing the travel frequency and travel time, the influence of car availability and degree of urbanization on travel behavior is identified. In the present scenario, the number of women license holders and the women who drive vehicles has tremendously increased over these years. This reveals that women either working or unemployed has a need to travel. This may be for traveling for work place, or travel on work, and personal travel. Especially in Chennai for the last ten years, the traffic problems have become very serious. Each and every individual has aversion for traveling by any mode of transport, hence this study has been focused to analyze the women travel behavior in hot traffic city, the study has been adopted convenience sampling technique and the total sample size was framed 125 fitted for the final study, the results are discussed based on research design.

Keyword: Hot Traffic, Aversion, Urbanisation, Travel Demand, Behaviour and Physique

 
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