Hardbound. Societal trends have made the need for better travel demand forecasts more urgent, at the same time as making people's travel and activity patterns far more complex. Traditional traffic flow models are no longer sophisticated enough to cope.Activity analysis is seen by many as the solution. It has had a short but intense history in geography, urban planning, time use research and, more recently, transportation. Pioneering activity-based models have now been developed to the point where, some argue, it is time to abandon the traditional four-step model for transportation demand...

This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; planning and engineering; environmental sociology and well-being research.

This volume analyses the relevance of daily travel in the quality of life of individuals. Chapters in this book relate travel and quality of life to the built environment, accessibility and exclusion, travel mode choice, travel satisfaction and emotions.