Shopping in Oslo. Frequency and transport mode. An analysis of data from the travel behaviour survey from 1991

The subject of this working report is travel activity related to shopping among inhabitants of Oslo. The main focus is put on gender differences. The data used were collected in the National travel behaviour study in Oslo 1990/91. In average the lengths of shopping trips are 5.6 km for men and 3.6 km for women. Men have fewer trips per day than women. Women more often than men start their shopping trips at work. They more often than men combine different activities to the journey to work. More than half of the men use a car for shopping trips, only 29 per cent of women do so. Women are more often passengers than men are. 20 per cent of women’s trips are done by public transport, while 8 per cent of men’s shopping trips are done by this means of transport. People who live in the central parts of the city more often walk to the shops than people who live in other parts of the city do, also when controlled for gender, car ownership and driving licence.