Suchergebnisse

1. Activity spaces, biographies, social networks and their welfare gains and externalities : some hypotheses and empirical results / Kay W. Axhausen -- 2. Qualitative interviews on the formation and maintenance of social networks as foundation for quantitative survey instruments / Timo Ohnmacht -- 3. Egocentric networks in Zurich : quantitative survey development, data collection and analysis / Andreas Frei and Timo Ohnmacht -- 4. Personal networks in a population-wide network structure / Matthias Kowald -- 5. Country specific characteristics matter / Andreas Frei. [et al.] -- 6. Personal characteristics, social contacts and transport systems / Juan A. Carrasco -- 7. Dynamic social networks and travel / Fariya Sharmeen, Theo Arentze and Harry J.P. Timmermans.

"In aiming to understand and model peoples' out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges; firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel; and secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples' social interactions or their personal social networks. These two main factors have driven transport planners to focus on peoples' interaction and their social network. Providing an overview of selected exemplary studies, this volume addresses the overlap between transport planning and methods of social network analysis; applied methods of social network analysis and related empirical results; and current challenges and new research questions in this field"--Provided by publisher

"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"--EBL