근로자의 통근시간 만족도 결정요인 연구: 경기도 거주자를 중심으로

초록

Government is putting many efforts to reduce commute time, but it continues increasing due to various environmental changes. As commute time is one of key measures which influence workers’ quality of life and happiness, research on long commute is an essential topic. This research attempts to introduce a new index, “Commute Satisfaction Level”, as a way to overcome the ambiguity of absolute commute time length which is often less practical to perfectly reflect the true perception of the commute quality. This research starts from defining the long commute time by workers and analyzes the characteristics of the workers who have a high satisfaction level despite their long commutes using decision trees and logistic regression analyses. The result shows that commutes of 58 minutes or longer are regarded as long commutes. In addition, such factors as spare time, relationship with neighbors, sleep time duration, transportation safety for children and public transportation use over car may positively influence the level of commute satisfaction regardless of long commutes. These findings imply that alternatives other than reducing commute time should be sought to raise the satisfaction level of commute when it is hard to substantially reduce the commute time.

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