Analysis of Commuting Time Choice Behavior under Flexible Time System

This paper purposes to analyze the mechanism of commuting time choice behavior under flexible time system.'Desired activity scheduling' relaxing working hour constraints is employed as a factor to affect commuter's behavior in the departure time choice models of duration type. Moreover, an activity time allocation model is estimated by using SP data in order to measure the relative importance of activities under flexible time system. a commuter's benefit is measured by using the parameters of an activity time allocation model.As a result, ‘Desired activity scheduling’ was confirmed to significantly affect the time choice behavior. And this factor is much effective rather than commuters' individual characteristics. Furthermore, it finds that the benefit for commuters under flexible time system is greater as time goes by after introducing the system.