Overview

""Travel Behaviour"" is a challenging and original volume, adding to the growing literature focusing on understanding transportation systems. The book capitalizes on actual scientific and applied developments in Europe, the importance of EC policies and the resultant trend in studying differences between North American and European research. The authors present non-traditional approaches to four pertinent topics in the field of travel behaviour: mobility and travel; telecommunication and travel; traffic congestion; and modelling travel behavioural responses.

Full Product Details

Author:   Eliahu Stern ,  IIan Salomon ,  Piet H.L. Bovy
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
Weight:   0.622kg
ISBN:  

9781840647075

ISBN 10:   1840647078
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 February 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface PART I MOBILITY AND TRAVEL PATTERNS 1. The compact city: Conflict of interest between housing and mobility aims in the Netherlands Kees Maat 2. Transport networks and mobility: A comparison analysis of the Randstad, the Rhine-Ruhr area and the Antwerp-Brussels-Ghent region Gysbertus R.M. Jansen, Hans Hilbers and Isabel Wilmink 3. The effects of parking pricing and supply on travel patterns to a major business district Yoram Shiftan PART II TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRAVEL 4. Work-related travelling and telecommunications: Substitution, stimulation and complementarity Mervi Lehto and Veli Himanen 5. Telecommuting/teleworking: A virtual commuting possibility - the cases of Belgium and Brussels Viviane Illegems, Alain Verbeke and Rosette S'Jegers 6. Long-distance telephone calls, media endowment and contact network: An empirical study Rico Maggi and Alessandro Cento PART III TRAFFIC AND CONGESTION 7. Infrastructure and congestion: Can rail save the road? Can public transport replace the car? Piet H.L. Bovy and Bert Van Wee 8. Congestion in Europe: Measurements, patterns and policies Piet H.L. Bovy and Ilan Salomon 9. Geographical classification of trips as a tool for policy assessment Jean-Pierre Orfeuil PART IV MODELLING BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES 10. Stated preference and conjoint analysis: A comparison using mode-choice behaviour Kay W. Axhausen, Helmut Koell and Michael Bader 11. Behavioural thresholds of commuters under congestion Eliahu Stern 12. A conceptual model of the weekly household activity/travel scheduling process Sean T. Doherty, Eric J. Miller, Kay W. Axhausen and Tommy Garling 13. Effects of office relocations to public transport nodal points on passenger mobility Bert Van Wee and Toon Van Der Hoorn Index

Reviews

'The book provides an insightful glimpse into the interdisciplinary research area on travel behavior. . . The many descriptions of current policy make this book particularly interesting for policymakers dealing with travel behavior in a more practical way.' -- Arianne de Blaeij, The Economic Journal

'The book provides an insightful glimpse into the interdisciplinary research area on travel behavior... The many descriptions of current policy make this book particularly interesting for policymakers dealing with travel behavior in a more practical way.' -- Arianne de Blaeij, The Economic Journal

Author Information

Edited by Eliahu Stern, Professor of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Ilan Salomon, Professor of Geography and Transport Planning, Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Piet H.L. Bovy, former Professor of Transport Planning, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions