Description:
Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on the biological, motivational, cognitive, situational, and dispositional factors that drive activity-travel behavior. Organized into three sections, Retrospective and Prospective Survey of Travel Behavior Research, New Research Methods and Findings, and Future Research, the chapters of this book provide evidence of progress made in the most recent years in four dimensions of the travel behavior genome. These dimensions are Substantive Problems, Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks, Behavioral Measurement, and Behavioral Analysis. Including the movement of goods as well as the movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms, attitudes, perceptions, emotions, feelings, and constraints lead to observed behavior; how to design efficient infrastructure and services to meet tomorrow's needs for accessibility and mobility; how to assess equity and distributional justice; and how to assess and implement policies for improving sustainability and quality of life.
Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm shift toward more dynamic, user-centric, demand-responsive transport services, including the "sharing economy," mobility as a service, automation, and robotics. This volume provides research directions to answer behavioral questions emerging from these upheavals.
Brief description: Konstadinos G. Goulias is a professor of transportation at the Geography Department and director of the GeoTrans Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. He is also co-editor-in-chief of Transportation Letters, and vice-chair/chair elect of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research. He is editor of Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications and the author or co-author of more than 300 papers and reports in travel behavior dynamics, geographic information science, and microsimulation.