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Book Spatial Variations in Travel Behavior and Time Use

Download or read book Spatial Variations in Travel Behavior and Time Use written by Tim Schwanen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Rhythms and Travel Behaviour

Download or read book Urban Rhythms and Travel Behaviour written by Stefan Schönfelder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent availability of longitudinal data on individual trip making and activity behaviour has provided analysts with new insights into the structures and motives of daily life travel. Multi-week travel diary data-sets and GPS observations are exciting sources of information for the description and modelling of the variability of individual travel patterns. Through an analysis of these strong new data sets, this book questions what are the most suitable methodological tools to represent the structures of long-term travel behaviour. It also examines what the data tells us about the travellers' motives and looks at how planning should translate the findings into forecasting tools and transport strategies. In doing so, the multifaceted and ambiguous character of daily life travel is revealed, illustrating how, while sound routines in time and space seem to dominate daily life, individuals show a considerable amount of variability and flexibility in travel and activity behaviour.

Book Travel Behaviour

Download or read book Travel Behaviour written by Eliahu Stern and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines papers from the fourth Network of European Communications and Transportation Activity Research (NECTAR) Euroconference, held in Israel in 1998, and additional works written specifically for this book. Thirteen contributions by 24 specialist from Europe, Israel and Canada explore issues relating to mobility and travel patterns; the relationship between housing and mobility, between infrastructure and mobility, and between parking and mobility; telecommunications and travel, especially travel to work; traffic and congestion; the non-traditional concept that "some congestion is good for the system"; a discussion of congestion on a European-wide scale; estimating the potential of traffic-calming measures; assessing the consequences of urban sprawl from the point of view of environmental and social sustainability; and key issues in modeling traffic behavioral responses. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Spatial Variability of Travel Time Coefficients in Travel Demand Models and Its Implication for Transportation Equilibrium

Download or read book Spatial Variability of Travel Time Coefficients in Travel Demand Models and Its Implication for Transportation Equilibrium written by Sung Yong Jung and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Built Environment and Car Travel

Download or read book Built Environment and Car Travel written by C. Maat and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of Interdependencies. An academic and policy debate has been running in recent decades on whetherand to what extent travel behaviour is influenced by the built environment.This dissertation addresses the influence on daily travel distance, chainingbehaviour, car ownershi

Book In Perpetual Motion

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Association of Travel Behaviour Research. Meeting
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2002-04-23
  • ISBN : 0080440444
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book In Perpetual Motion written by International Association of Travel Behaviour Research. Meeting and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-04-23 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative assessment of the state-of-the-art in travel behavior research and applications, and identifies the principal emerging trends, challenges and opportunities in this important area of transportation research. It is an outgrowth of the "Austin Meeting" of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research, a milestone event in defining cutting-edge problems and developments in this area. It provides both an entry point and a foundation for future developments likely to take place over the next decade.-- State-of-the-art assessments of key areas of travel behavior research and policy applications, written by the leading international researchers in these areas; unique to this volume-- Features the last two publications of the late Eric Pas, a critical thinker and contributor to the field, including a milestone contribution to Time Use and Travel Behavior-- Charting of new territory for the travel behavior community in the areas of intelligent-transportation systems, telecommunications-travel interactions, land use-travel interactions and the application of microsimulation techniques for dynamic analysis of travel choices in networks

Book Handbook on Transport and Urban Planning in the Developed World

Download or read book Handbook on Transport and Urban Planning in the Developed World written by Michiel C.J. Bliemer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of all of the major factors that underpin our understanding of urban and transport planning in the developed world. Combining urban and transport planning in one volume, the chapters present the state of the art as well as new research and directions for the future. The contributions from leading international academics at the forefront of their fields consider transport and urban planning from a number of different perspectives including historical, policy and strategy dimensions, appraisal and financing of options, planning and design of urban areas and the management of transport and urban systems. Examples and practical guides from the developed world are included along with a detailed discussion of the emerging issues. The Handbook provides an essential reference to all of the key points on the topic as well as signalling areas of concern and future research paths. Academics, researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners will find it a constant source of information and guidance.

Book Spatial and Social Variations in Travel Behaviour

Download or read book Spatial and Social Variations in Travel Behaviour written by Veronique Van Acker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome

Download or read book Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome written by Konstadinos G. Goulias and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on the biological, motivational, cognitive, situational, and dispositional factors that drive activity-travel behavior. Organized into three sections, Retrospective and Prospective Survey of Travel Behavior Research, New Research Methods and Findings, and Future Research, the chapters of this book provide evidence of progress made in the most recent years in four dimensions of the travel behavior genome. These dimensions are Substantive Problems, Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks, Behavioral Measurement, and Behavioral Analysis. Including the movement of goods as well as the movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms, attitudes, perceptions, emotions, feelings, and constraints lead to observed behavior; how to design efficient infrastructure and services to meet tomorrow's needs for accessibility and mobility; how to assess equity and distributional justice; and how to assess and implement policies for improving sustainability and quality of life. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm shift toward more dynamic, user-centric, demand-responsive transport services, including the "sharing economy," mobility as a service, automation, and robotics. This volume provides research directions to answer behavioral questions emerging from these upheavals. Offers a wide variety of approaches from leading travel behavior researchers from around the world Provides a complete map of the methods, skills, and knowledge needed to work in travel behavior Describes the state of the art in travel behavior research, providing key directions for future research

Book Travel Behavior

Download or read book Travel Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB?s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2495, includes 14 papers that explore information related to travel behavior, including: Factors Associated with High School Students? Delayed Acquisition of a Driver?s License: Insights from Three Northern California Schools; Reliability in the German Value of Time Study; Modeling Intertrip Time Intervals Between Individuals? Overnight Long-Distance Trips; Joint Econometric Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Flexibility of Activities, Vehicle Type Choice, and Primary Driver Selection; Value of Schedule Delays by Time of Day: Evidence from Usage Data from High-Occupancy Toll Lanes on State Road 167; Hybrid Electric Vehicle Ownership and Fuel Economy Across Texas: An Application of Spatial Models; Differences in Travel Behavior Across Population Sectors in Jerusalem, Israel; Defining, Measuring, and Using the Lifestyle Concept in Modal Choice Research; Modeling Social Network Influence on Joint Trip Frequency for Regular Activity Travel Decisions; Walking Behavior: The Role of Childhood Travel Experience; Choice Set Generation for Modeling Scenic Route Choice Behavior with Geographic Information Systems; Evaluation Methods for Estimating Vehicle Miles Traveled with GPS Travel Survey Data; Joint Modeling of Household Vehicle and Activity Allocation: Statistical Analysis and Discrete Choice Modeling Approach; Assessing Goodness of Fit of Hybrid Choice Models: An Open Research Question." -- Publisher's description.

Book Travel Behavior 2009

Download or read book Travel Behavior 2009 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2135 includes 19 papers that explore ego-centered social networks, investigation of whether value of travel time increases as travel time increases, continuous choice model of timing and duration of joint activities, dual-response choices in pivoted stated choice experiments, variation in value of travel time under different freeway driving conditions, week-to-week leisure trip frequency and its variability, perception of waiting time at signalized intersections, formulation of an activity-based utility measure of time use, the relationship between work and travel behavior on weekdays, and the impact of neighborhood trail development on active travel behavior of suburban residents. This issue of the TRR also examines location choice modeling for shopping and leisure activities with MATSim; implementation of scheduling conflict resolution model in activity-scheduling system; structural equations model of land use patterns, location choice, and travel behavior; using deliberative methods to understand travel choices in context of climate change; built environment or household life-cycle stages for explaining sustainable travel; travel behavior of largest minority cohorts in Texas; simultaneous model for household interactions in daily activity, information and communication, and social behavior; telecommuting as a component of commute trip reduction program; and e-shopping, spatial attributes, and personal travel.

Book Expanding Sphere of Travel Behaviour Research

Download or read book Expanding Sphere of Travel Behaviour Research written by Ryuichi Kitamura and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for researchers, and graduate students in the field of transportation and urban planning in general, and in travel behaviour analysis in particular, this volume of the 11th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, held in Kyoto, Japan, in August 2006, examines key issues and emerging trends in the field of travel behaviour.

Book Sustainable Transport Studies in Asia

Download or read book Sustainable Transport Studies in Asia written by Akimasa Fujiwara and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a good understanding of and perspective on sustainable transport in Asia by focusing on economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is widely acknowledged that the current situation and trends in transport are not always sustainable in Asia, due in part to the fast-growing economy and the astounding speed of urbanization as well as least-mature governance. As essential research material, the book provides strong support for policy makers and planners by comprehensively covering three groups of strategies, characterized by the words “avoid” (e.g., urban form design and control of car ownership), “shift” (e.g., establishing comprehensive transportation systems and increasing public transportation systems for both intracity and intercity travel), and “improve” (e.g., redesign of paratransit system, low-emission vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, and eco-life). These are elaborated in the book alongside consideration of the uncertainty of policy effects in the future. The book is also valuable for scholars and scientists because of the diverse methodologies presented and proposed herein. Among those are the four-step model with full feedback mechanisms, the bi-level programming model with sustainability goals, data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis approaches, structural equation models, discrete and/or continuous choice models, copula-based models, survival models, and driving risk models with short-term memory. Using data collected from more than ten Asian cities, including those in both developed and developing nations, the pathway to sustainable transport in Asia gradually becomes clear.

Book Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course

Download or read book Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course written by Joachim Scheiner and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking book analyses recent innovations for researching travel behaviour over the life course. Original in its approach, it synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field.

Book Transport Policy and the Environment

Download or read book Transport Policy and the Environment written by David Banister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently considerable concern with limiting the growth of transport demand, the use of resources and related pollution. This book makes a major contribution to the debate on transport and the environment and is likely to become a benchmark against which new research will be developed. Transport Policy and the Environment presents for the first time the results of extensive research: *quantifying the contribution of transport to environmental problems. *assessing the options for resolving those problems. *investigating the conflicts arising from policy implementation. *developing new and better methods of data collection and analysis. It brings together the results of a major research programme funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council on Transport and the Environment and provides a clear view on current policy. It is the major contribution that UK research has made to the debate and provides the first set of substantive results on the effectiveness of policy, and the means by which the impact can be measured and assessed.

Book Modeling and Forecasting the Impact of Major Technological and Infrastructural Changes on Travel Demand

Download or read book Modeling and Forecasting the Impact of Major Technological and Infrastructural Changes on Travel Demand written by Feras El Zarwi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transportation system is undergoing major technological and infrastructural changes, such as the introduction of autonomous vehicles, high speed rail, carsharing, ridesharing, flying cars, drones, and other app-driven on-demand services. While the changes are imminent, the impact on travel behavior is uncertain, as is the role of policy in shaping the future. Literature shows that even under the most optimistic scenarios, society's environmental goals cannot be met by technology, operations, and energy system improvements only - behavior change is needed. Behavior change does not occur instantaneously, but is rather a gradual process that requires years and even generations to yield the desired outcomes. That is why we need to nudge and guide trends of travel behavior over time in this era of transformative mobility. We should focus on influencing long-range trends of travel behavior to be more sustainable and multimodal via effective policies and investment strategies. Hence, there is a need for developing policy analysis tools that focus on modeling the evolution of trends of travel behavior in response to upcoming transportation services and technologies. Over time, travel choices, attitudes, and social norms will result in changes in lifestyles and travel behavior. That is why understanding dynamic changes of lifestyles and behavior in this era of transformative mobility is central to modeling and influencing trends of travel behavior. Modeling behavioral dynamics and trends is key to assessing how policies and investment strategies can transform cities to provide a higher level of connectivity, attain significant reductions in congestion levels, encourage multimodality, improve economic and environmental health, and ensure equity. This dissertation focuses on addressing limitations of activity-based travel demand models in capturing and predicting trends of travel behavior. Activity-based travel demand models are the commonly-used approach by metropolitan planning agencies to predict 20-30 year forecasts. These include traffic volumes, transit ridership, biking and walking market shares that are the result of large scale transportation investments and policy decisions. Currently, travel demand models are not equipped with a framework that predicts long-range trends in travel behavior for two main reasons. First, they do not entail a mechanism that projects membership and market share of new modes of transport into the future (Uber, autonomous vehicles, carsharing services, etc). Second, they lack a dynamic framework that could enable them to model and forecast changes in lifestyles and transport modality styles. Modeling the evolution and dynamic changes of behavior, modality styles and lifestyles in response to infrastructural and technological investments is key to understanding and predicting trends of travel behavior, car ownership levels, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and travel mode choice. Hence, we need to integrate a methodological framework into current travel demand models to better understand and predict the impact of upcoming transportation services and technologies, which will be prevalent in 20-30 years. The objectives of this dissertation are to model the dynamics of lifestyles and travel behavior through: " Developing a disaggregate, dynamic discrete choice framework that models and predicts long-range trends of travel behavior, and accounts for upcoming technological and infrastructural changes." Testing the proposed framework to assess its methodological flexibility and robustness." Empirically highlighting the value of the framework to transportation policy and practice. The proposed disaggregate, dynamic discrete choice framework in this dissertation addresses two key limitations of existing travel demand models, and in particular: (1) dynamic, disaggregate models of technology and service adoption, and (2) models that capture how lifestyles, preferences and transport modality styles evolve dynamically over time. This dissertation brings together theories and techniques from econometrics (discrete choice analysis), machine learning (hidden Markov models), statistical learning (Expectation Maximization algorithm), and the technology diffusion literature (adoption styles). Throughout this dissertation we develop, estimate, apply and test the building blocks of the proposed disaggregate, dynamic discrete choice framework. The two key developed components of the framework are defined below. First, a discrete choice framework for modeling and forecasting the adoption and diffusion of new transportation services. A disaggregate technology adoption model was developed since models of this type can: (1) be integrated with current activity-based travel demand models; and (2) account for the spatial/network effect of the new technology to understand and quantify how the size of the network, governed by the new technology, influences the adoption behavior. We build on the formulation of discrete mixture models and specifically dynamic latent class choice models, which were integrated with a network effect model. We employed a confirmatory approach to estimate our latent class choice model based on findings from the technology diffusion literature that focus on defining distinct types of adopters such as innovator/early adopters and imitators. Latent class choice models allow for heterogeneity in the utility of adoption for the various market segments i.e. innovators/early adopters, imitators and non-adopters. We make use of revealed preference (RP) time series data from a one-way carsharing system in a major city in the United States to estimate model parameters. The data entails a complete set of member enrollment for the carsharing service for a time period of 2.5 years after being launched. Consistent with the technology diffusion literature, our model identifies three latent classes whose utility of adoption have a well-defined set of preferences that are statistically significant and behaviorally consistent. The technology adoption model predicts the probability that a certain individual will adopt the service at a certain time period, and is explained by social influences, network effect, socio-demographics and level-of-service attributes. Finally, the model was calibrated and then used to forecast adoption of the carsharing system for potential investment strategy scenarios. A couple of takeaways from the adoption forecasts were: (1) highest expected increase in the monthly number of adopters arises by establishing a relationship with a major technology firm and placing a new station/pod for the carsharing system outside that technology firm; and (2) no significant difference in the expected number of monthly adopters for the downtown region will exist between having a station or on-street parking. The second component in the proposed framework entails modeling and forecasting the evolution of preferences, lifestyles and transport modality styles over time. Literature suggests that preferences, as denoted by taste parameters and consideration sets in the context of utility-maximizing behavior, may evolve over time in response to changes in demographic and situational variables, psychological, sociological and biological constructs, and available alternatives and their attributes. However, existing representations typically overlook the influence of past experiences on present preferences. This study develops, applies and tests a hidden Markov model with a discrete choice kernel to model and forecast the evolution of individual preferences and behaviors over long-range forecasting horizons. The hidden states denote different preferences, i.e. modes considered in the choice set and sensitivity to level-of-service attributes. The evolutionary path of those hidden states (preference states) is hypothesized to be a first-order Markov process such that an individual's preferences during a particular time period are dependent on their preferences during the previous time period. The framework is applied to study the evolution of travel mode preferences, or modality styles, over time, in response to a major change in the public transportation system. We use longitudinal travel diary from Santiago, Chile. The dataset consists of four one-week pseudo travel diaries collected before and after the introduction of Transantiago, which was a complete redesign of the public transportation system in the city. Our model identifies four modality styles in the population, labeled as follows: drivers, bus users, bus-metro users, and auto-metro users. The modality styles differ in terms of the travel modes that they consider and their sensitivity to level-of-service attributes (travel time, travel cost, etc.). At the population level, there are significant shifts in the distribution of individuals across modality styles before and after the change in the system, but the distribution is relatively stable in the periods after the change. In general, the proportion of drivers, auto-metro users, and bus-metro users has increased, and the proportion of bus users has decreased. At the individual level, habit formation is found to impact transition probabilities across all modality styles; individuals are more likely to stay in the same modality style over successive time periods than transition to a different modality style. Finally, a comparison between the proposed dynamic framework and comparable static frameworks reveals differences in aggregate forecasts for different policy scenarios, demonstrating the value of the proposed framework for both individual and population-level policy analysis. The aforementioned methodological frameworks comprise complex model formulation. This however comes at a cost in terms.

Book Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome

Download or read book Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome written by Konstadinos G. Goulias and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on the biological, motivational, cognitive, situational, and dispositional factors that drive activity-travel behavior. Organized into three sections, Retrospective and Prospective Survey of Travel Behavior Research, New Research Methods and Findings, and Future Research, the chapters of this book provide evidence of progress made in the most recent years in four dimensions of the travel behavior genome. These dimensions are Substantive Problems, Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks, Behavioral Measurement, and Behavioral Analysis. Including the movement of goods as well as the movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms, attitudes, perceptions, emotions, feelings, and constraints lead to observed behavior; how to design efficient infrastructure and services to meet tomorrow’s needs for accessibility and mobility; how to assess equity and distributional justice; and how to assess and implement policies for improving sustainability and quality of life. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm shift toward more dynamic, user-centric, demand-responsive transport services, including the "sharing economy," mobility as a service, automation, and robotics. This volume provides research directions to answer behavioral questions emerging from these upheavals. Offers a wide variety of approaches from leading travel behavior researchers from around the world Provides a complete map of the methods, skills, and knowledge needed to work in travel behavior Describes the state of the art in travel behavior research, providing key directions for future research