Mobility of care in daily trip chaining - new publication

Trips related to “care” labour (e.g. escorting kids, visiting old parents, making grocery shopping, and household errands) represent a big share of our daily mobility, roughly as large as the share of work commutes.

But how do we combine care-related trips with all the other kinds of trips we do in our daily life? And how can this combination influence broader mobility choices like the modes of transport we daily use? To answer this question, we need to look at so-called trip-chaining patterns, i.e. the way we combine multiple trips in sequences on a daily basis.

In their last paper, A. Dianin (Eurac Research), R. Ceccato (Uni PD), and M. Diana (Politecnico di Torino) analyse a large travel-diary dataset from the city of Turin to reconstruct how people chain care-related trips within their daily routines.

Curious to see the results and their implications?