Leisure traffic
The leisure traffic is a purpose of the trip , the trips with transportation during the time concerns.
General
In addition to leisure traffic , the purposes of travel also include training traffic ( school trips , school trips ), commuter traffic , business and official travel , shopping traffic and vacation traffic . They all have a place of origin and / or destination of the place of work , training facility , place of purchase, school , vacation place, apartment or some other place .
Components
For a large number of journeys there is no parallelism of outward and return journeys, for example in the case of "triangular journeys" between the home to the workplace, from there to shopping and only then back to the home. This also applies to leisure traffic. As a rule, the place of departure for leisure traffic is the home, but leisure can also be started at the place of work , for example if the employee drives directly from the place of work to the sports facility . However, this astray is not one of the journeys to work insured as a commuting accident .
Leisure traffic is a residual value that includes all traffic that does not belong to the other types of traffic . That is why this also includes trips by weekend commuters ; a short vacation of less than five days is not vacation traffic, but leisure traffic.
economic aspects
Holiday and leisure traffic is an important component of private traffic and has the highest share of passenger traffic expenditure (measured in passenger kilometers ):
| Passenger traffic expenditure by purpose of travel (in billions of passenger kilometers ) |
2003 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Vacation and leisure traffic | 43.6% | 38.9% |
| Professional and training traffic | 20.4% | 20.5% |
| Shopping traffic | 17.2% | 15.8% |
| Business and official travel | 12.5% | 20.2% |
| Escort trips | 5.2% | 4.6% |
Holiday and leisure traffic decreased significantly between 2003 and 2017, but it remains the most important travel purpose. Business and official trips have increased significantly accordingly.
Traffic planning
The various purposes of the journey are objects of knowledge in traffic planning , because depending on the purpose of the journey, the willingness to accept longer queues ( traffic jams ) or diversions , for example, varies and has to be taken into account by the traffic planning.
Individual evidence
- ^ German Institute for Economic Research (eds.), Claus Köhler / Henryk Bolik, Regional Structure of Passenger Transport in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1975 , 1981, p. 13
- ↑ German Institute for Economic Research (eds.), Heinz Franke / Ulrich Voigt, Integrated long-term forecast for transport demand in freight and passenger transport in the FRG up to 1990 , 1977, p. 19
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Information (ed.), Traffic figures 2019/2020 , p. 235