Report on Investigations of Household Travel Decision Making Behaviour
This paper describes how studies of human activity within the travel research context are in their very early stages, and substantial conceptual and empirical problems remain to be resolved. Although the potential benefits of such an approach have yet to be widely demonstrated, it would nevertheless appear to offer considerable conceptual advantages over the trip demand framework, and it field of applications may be considerably greater. Further research is to concentrate upon development of increasingly appropriate mathematical models, but the qualitative understanding of the phenomenon of travel behavior suggest that less formal approaches, including the variants of Household Activity-Travel Simulator (HATS) may have an assured role both for pragmatic planning; and for pure research. In certain applications HATS can produce information about primary and secondary impacts of policy that can be expected to be both more complete and more reliable than the most accurate output of current behavioral trip models.
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Corporate Authors:
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
P.O. Box 566
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Authors:
- Dix, M C
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Conference:
- Transport Decisions in an Age of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the Third World Conference on Transport Research
- Location: Rotterdam , Netherlands
- Date: 1997-4-26 to 1997-4-28
- Publication Date: 1977
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: pp 145-158
- Monograph Title: Transport Decisions in an Age of Uncertainty
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Activity choices; Behavior; Decision making; Households; Travel; Travel behavior; Travel demand
- Uncontrolled Terms: Activity based modeling; Travel simulators
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01085104
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9024720613
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:15AM