Originally published in 1979, this study deals on a fully comprehensive level with both passenger and freight travel. The 40 chapters deal with an extensive range of related topics, including equilibrium modelling, theoretical and conceptual developments in demand modelling, goods movement and forecasting and policy. It outlines approaches to understanding travel behaviour, which move beyond the individual choice theory towards a broader consideration of activities.

Presents an international collection of papers on methodological and substantive findings from the analysis of personal travel written by travel behaviour researchers from the social and engineering sciences. This book is organised in 4 sections: traveller activity; stated preference methods; dynamic behaviour; and improvement of travel models.

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