Travel behavior

This is important in forecasting traffic, which depends on future changes to road networks, land use patterns, and policies.

Analysis of travel behavior from the home can answer the question: How does the family participate in modern society.

Moore (1964) has observed that increasing specialization in all things is the chief feature of social change.

For instance, the time spent on the journey to work may have been stable for centuries (the travel budget hypothesis).

Many of the insights current today were found by Liepmann: time spent, ride sharing, etc.

Most academics date modern work from advances in mode choice analysis made in the 1970s.

This created much excitement, and after some years an International Association for Travel Behaviour Research emerged.

Mode choice received priority early on, but in the main today’s work is not so much on theory as it is on practice.

Hagerstrand (1970) developed a time and space path analysis, often called the time-space prism.

One of the presented studies, conducted by Nobis et al.,[7] revealed that the gender difference in travel patterns is linked to employment status, household structure, child care, and maintenance tasks.