A CAUSAL MODEL OF MOBILITY

The research reported here is exploratory. Its purpose was to test the suitability for travel demand forecasting of a modelling approach known variously as "causal analysis", "structural equations modelling", "path analysis", and "simultaneous systems". This approach attempts to represent the empirical associations among a set of variables in terms of specific cause and effect linkages. In other words, the approach involves the testing of the degree to which observed associations among variables can be accounted for by a pre-determined theoretical cause- and-effect structure. The application is to a general analysis of household mobility at the disaggregate level. The dependent variables in the proposed model include overall travel indicators such as total distances travelled by different modes, total trips employment status, income, and spatial location. For the variables include various measures of household structure, employment status, income, and spatial location.(a) for the covering abstract of the conference see TRIS 389247. (Author/TRRL)

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Transportation Planning Research Colloquium 1983 held in Zandvoort on December 14-16, 1983. Volume II.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Colloguium Vervoersplanologisch Speurwerk

    P.O. Box 45
    Delft,   Netherlands 
  • Authors:
    • Golob, T F
  • Publication Date: 1984

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  • Accession Number: 00389289
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM