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Routledge Handbook of Transportation (Paperback): Dusan Teodorovic Routledge Handbook of Transportation (Paperback)
Dusan Teodorovic
R1,698 Discovery Miles 16 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research. It provides a step-by-step introduction to research related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and performance measurement and evaluation of transportation alternatives. The Handbook of Transportation demonstrates models and methods for predicting travel and freight demand, planning future transportation networks, and developing traffic control systems. Readers will learn how to use various engineering concepts and approaches to make future transportation safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. Edited by Dusan Teodorovic and featuring 29 chapters from more than 50 leading global experts, with more than 200 illustrations, the Routledge Handbook of Transportation is designed as an invaluable resource for professionals and students in transportation planning and engineering.

Integrated Futures and Transport Choices - UK Transport Policy Beyond the 1998 White Paper and Transport Acts (Hardcover):... Integrated Futures and Transport Choices - UK Transport Policy Beyond the 1998 White Paper and Transport Acts (Hardcover)
Julian Hine, John Preston
R5,499 Discovery Miles 54 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title was first published in 2003. The UK transport White Paper "A New Deal for Transport" and new Transport Acts for England, Wales and Scotland have indicated and defined the future direction and policy agenda of national governments. The need for integrated transport raises key policy issues, among which are: the importance of sustainability; and the integration of transport policy with other areas of public policy, such as social exclusion and health. The idea of this direction in policy has implications for the changing nature of work, traveller information, interchange and public transport, freight distribution and the use of new technology. This volume also examines key areas of policy and regulation, which are developing as a result of the White Paper and the new Transport Acts. The volume brings together leading UK academics in the field of transport studies to discuss and reflect on these issues, and the state of transport policy in the UK within this new and developing policy framework.

Transport Policy and Research - What Future? (Hardcover): Liana Giorgi, Ronald J. Phoryles Transport Policy and Research - What Future? (Hardcover)
Liana Giorgi, Ronald J. Phoryles
R2,484 Discovery Miles 24 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title was first published in 2003. What is the meaning of "sustainable mobility"? Is there a European common transport policy? To what extent is policy relevant for transport developments? What is the contribution of European transport research? These are some of the questions and themes addressed in this study of transport policy and research. It addresses the dynamics surrounding policy formulation and implementation, the conflicts of interest underlying these processes at the regional, national and supra-national levels, the inherent contradictions of the ecological modernization discourse as it applies to transport, and the role of the public or the citizen in determining trajectories for future developments. The book distils the results of three projects that have been completed with the support of the European Commission under the Fourth Framework Transport RTD Programme, namely the TENASSESS, CODE-TEN and POSSUM projects. The majority of the contributions derive from the TENASSESS project.

An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation - Policy, Planning and Implementation (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Preston L... An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation - Policy, Planning and Implementation (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Preston L Schiller, Jeffrey Kenworthy
R5,514 Discovery Miles 55 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation illustrates a new planning paradigm for sustainable transportation through case studies from around the world with hundreds of valuable resources and references, color photos, graphics and tables. The second edition builds and expands upon the highly acclaimed first edition, with new chapters on urban design and urban, regional and intercity public transportation, as well as expanded chapters on automobile dependence and equity issues; automobile cities and the car culture; the history of sustainable and unsustainable transportation; the interrelatedness of technologies, infrastructure energy and functionalities; and public policy and public participation and exemplary places, people and programs around the globe. Among the many valuable additions are discussions of autonomous vehicles (AVs), electric vehicles (EVs), airport cities, urban fabrics, urban heat island effects and mobility as a service (MaaS). New case studies show global exemplars of sustainable transportation, including several from Asia, a case study of participative and deliberative public involvement, as well as one describing life in the Vauban ecologically planned community of Freiburg, Germany. Students in affiliated sustainability disciplines, planners, policymakers and concerned citizens will find many provides practical techniques to innovate and transform transportation.

Networked Urban Mobilities (Hardcover): Various Networked Urban Mobilities (Hardcover)
Various
R13,237 Discovery Miles 132 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Networked Urban Mobilites series resulted from the Cosmobilities Network of mobility research and the Taylor & Francis journal, 'Applied Mobilties.' This three volume set, ideal for mobilties researchers and practitioners, explores a broad number of topics including planning, architecture, geography and urban design.

Green Transportation and Energy Consumption in China (Hardcover): Jian Chai, Ying Yang, Quanying Lu, Limin Xing, Ting Liang,... Green Transportation and Energy Consumption in China (Hardcover)
Jian Chai, Ying Yang, Quanying Lu, Limin Xing, Ting Liang, …
R4,480 Discovery Miles 44 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides insights into China's energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which includes technologies to improve transportation resource efficiency, modification of existing transportation infrastructure and structure. This book uses various analytical models to study the relationships within the transportation system. It also includes comparative analysis of China, Japan, the US and developing countries on traffic demand and transportation energy consumption. This book highlights the urgent need to review China's current transportation policies in order to secure a breakthrough in energy saving and emissions reduction.

Urban Ports and Harbor Management - Responding to Change along U.S. Waterfronts (Hardcover): Marc J. Hershman Urban Ports and Harbor Management - Responding to Change along U.S. Waterfronts (Hardcover)
Marc J. Hershman
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in this book, first published in 1988, explore the changes that have occurred in the modern harbour in the 1970s and 1980s and the many roles of the public port in stimulating or responding to these changes. The goal of this study is to understand the modern harbour and public port and the contemporary pressures on them. The contributors' disciplines range among geography, law, business, political science, and marine affairs.

Connecting Places, Connecting People - A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Reena Tiwari Connecting Places, Connecting People - A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Reena Tiwari
R5,479 Discovery Miles 54 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future living and mobility in the cities, will question the relevance of face-to-face connections. What will be the 'glue' that holds communities together in the future? To build better communities and to build better cities, we need to reconnect people and places. Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for place making by reordering urban planning principles from prioritizing movement of vehicles to focusing on places and the people who live in them. Numerous case studies, including many from developing countries in the Global South, illustrate how this can be realized or fallen short of in practical terms. Importantly, citizens need to be engaged in policy development, to connect with each other and with government agencies. To measure the connectivity attributes of places and the success of strategies to meet the needs, an Audit Tool is offered for a continual quantitative and qualitative evaluation.

Urban Public Transport Today (Hardcover): Barry John Simpson, B Simpson Urban Public Transport Today (Hardcover)
Barry John Simpson, B Simpson
R5,768 Discovery Miles 57 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of essential UK forms, although some non-UK forms are included, this volume is a representative collection of contracts used by practitioners involved in the carriage of goods by land and sea. It provides examples of forms and contract clauses in common use.

City Logistics: Modelling, planning and evaluation (Paperback): Eiichi Taniguchi City Logistics: Modelling, planning and evaluation (Paperback)
Eiichi Taniguchi
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume on city logistics presents recent advances of modelling urban freight transport as well as planning and evaluating city logistics policy measures in the academic research areas and practices. The contributions of eleven chapters have come from eight countries, including Japan, UK, The Netherlands, Italy, France, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brazil. As city logistics aims at creating efficient and environmental-friendly urban freight transport systems, these chapters deal with challenging urban freight transport problems from various point of views of the usage of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), multi-agent modelling, public-private partnerships, and the disaster consideration. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences.

Managing Urban Mobility Systems (Hardcover): Rosario Macario Managing Urban Mobility Systems (Hardcover)
Rosario Macario
R2,779 Discovery Miles 27 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Urban mobility is currently a major problem all over the world. Space is limited, and individuals aim for a level of quality in mobility that is only achieved by largely motorised solutions, which have a detrimental effect on the urban environment. Careful analysis of urban mobility systems across the world reveals that consistent and effective policies can only be defined and implemented if the various components of the system and their interrelations are considered. This book addresses the problem of managing urban mobility systems in a novel way by considering the complexity and diversity of the conurbation and agents involved in a UMS, putting forward the evidence that urban mobility must be managed at system level. The value of this book lies in bringing together a sound theoretical approach to urban mobility systems supported by evidence from several cities across the world where this approach was either implemented or at least assessed, together with clear instructional guidelines. It constitutes a handbook for practitioners, politicians, researchers and students of urban mobility management.

Handbook of Transport Strategy, Policy and Institutions (Hardcover, New): Kenneth J. Button, David A. Hensher Handbook of Transport Strategy, Policy and Institutions (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth J. Button, David A. Hensher
R6,519 Discovery Miles 65 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Privatisation, regulation, deregulation, competition, funding, evaluation: these are all transport policy issues of great current interest worldwide, in the public arena as well as among researchers.

In 46 chapters by acknowledged experts on their topics, these and other aspects of transport policy and planning are addressed in this, the sixth Handbook in Transport. The work is organised into sections covering:

- Institutional Settings and Markets
- Planning Perspectives
- Asset Management and Funding
- Regulatory Issues
- Evaluation Frameworks
- National Studies

Within this section structure this wide-ranging volume embraces:

- the collection of data (and its transformation into information)
- the formation of policy objectives by government (at all its different levels)
- the establishment of institutional structures to attain these goals
- the resourcing of these institutions
- the implementation of actions
- and the policing and monitoring of outcomes.

It employs a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, politics, law, physical planning, psychology and engineering. It will be of value to students, researchers, and practitioners approaching transport from any of these perspectives.

"Edited by two of the leading figures in transportation research and dissemination, these handbooks are likely to become the essential reference work in the field."
DR JOHN PRESTON, DIRECTOR, TRANSPORT STUDIES UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport - Governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles (Paperback): Mans Nilsson, Karl... Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport - Governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles (Paperback)
Mans Nilsson, Karl Hillman, Annika Rickne, Thomas Magnusson
R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about how societies around the world can accelerate innovation in sustainable transport. It examines the relationship between policy change and the development of technological innovations in low carbon vehicle technologies, including biofuels, hybrid-electric vehicles, electric vehicles and fuel cells. Examining this relationship across countries and regions that are leaders in vehicle manufacturing and innovation, such as the European Union, Germany, Sweden, China, Japan, Korea and USA, the books aims to learn lessons about policy and innovation performance.

Designing Mobility and Transport Services - Developing traveller experience tools (Hardcover): Mike Tovey, Andree Woodcock,... Designing Mobility and Transport Services - Developing traveller experience tools (Hardcover)
Mike Tovey, Andree Woodcock, Jane Osmond
R4,646 Discovery Miles 46 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic. For many people transport provision is unsatisfactory and current arrangements are leading to a deteriorating environment. A fundamental problem is that our currently fragmented approach makes it difficult to understand fully the circumstances and needs of transport users. In any overall approach public transport is a crucial component. Designing Mobility and Transport Services shows how these issues can be addressed and resolved. The development of an inclusive, validated passenger experience measurement instrument is the first step in understanding the situation and thus tackling it. It is needed if we are to create high quality, user centred, integrated, accessible public transport services, which are capable of attracting and retaining public transport users whilst meeting sustainability targets. The METPEX research project was devised to tackle these issues. Coordinated by Coventry University, the METPEX consortium brought together 16 European partners from 12 countries. The project's underlying rationale was the proposition that if transport operators and authorities were provided with a robust, reliable and tailorable means of measuring the whole multimodal passenger journey, they could improve service provision. The book describes how such an improvement can be achieved, to attract travellers out of their private vehicles, thereby reducing congestion and pollution and increasing health and well-being. It provides a template for a creative approach and a meta-design narrative in designing for transport systems to enhance mobility choices by improving the door to door journey and thus underpin sustainable transport initiatives.

Mobilities Design - Urban Designs for Mobile Situations (Hardcover): Ole B. Jensen, Ditte Bendix Lanng Mobilities Design - Urban Designs for Mobile Situations (Hardcover)
Ole B. Jensen, Ditte Bendix Lanng
R4,633 Discovery Miles 46 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contemporary society is marked and defined by the ways in which mobile goods, bodies, vehicles, objects, and data are organized, moved and staged. Against the background of the 'mobilities turn' this book articulates a new and emerging research field, namely that of 'mobilities design'. The book revolves around the following research question: How are design decisions and interventions staging mobilities? It builds upon the 'Staging Mobilities' model (Jensen 2013) in an exploratory inquiry into the problems and potentials of the design of mobilities. The exchange value between mobilities and design research is twofold. To mobilities research this means getting closer to the 'material', and to engage in the creative, exploratory and experimental approaches of the design world which offer new potential for innovative research. Design research, on the other hand, might enter into a fruitful relationship with mobilities research, offering a relational and mobile design thinking and a valuable basis for design reflections around the ubiquitous structures, spaces and systems of mobilities.

Transport Policy and the Environment - Six case studies (Paperback): Kenneth Button Transport Policy and the Environment - Six case studies (Paperback)
Kenneth Button; Edited by Jean-Philippe Barde
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Transport, in particular the motor vehicle, is a major source of environmental disruption and, in the developed world, accounts for thirty percent of energy consumption. In most countries, transport policy is a major government concern, yet it is rare for decisions to be made outside a narrow set of sectoral considerations. This book, commissioned by the OECD, looks at seven countries; the UK, the USA, West Germany, France, The Netherlands, Greece and Italy. Each case demonstrates, in different ways, the problems in transport policies produced by the failure is a consequence of departmental division: transport, the environment, the exchequer, etc. all have their own, quite separate ministries. Here, a group of economists have demonstrated both the folly of such partial ways of thinking and, in writing their critiques of specific disaster, have provided models for ways forward. Originally published in 1990

Routledge Handbook of Transportation (Hardcover): Dusan Teodorovic Routledge Handbook of Transportation (Hardcover)
Dusan Teodorovic
R6,793 Discovery Miles 67 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research. It provides a step-by-step introduction to research related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and performance measurement and evaluation of transportation alternatives. The Handbook of Transportation demonstrates models and methods for predicting travel and freight demand, planning future transportation networks, and developing traffic control systems. Readers will learn how to use various engineering concepts and approaches to make future transportation safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. Edited by Dusan Teodorovic and featuring 29 chapters from more than 50 leading global experts, with more than 200 illustrations, the Routledge Handbook of Transportation is designed as an invaluable resource for professionals and students in transportation planning and engineering.

Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History (Hardcover, New Ed): Colin Divall, Julian Hine Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History (Hardcover, New Ed)
Colin Divall, Julian Hine
R4,636 Discovery Miles 46 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies. This is not to say that history repeats itself, or that every contemporary transport dilemma has an historical counterpart: rather, the contributors to this book argue that in many contexts of transport planning a better understanding of the context and consequences of past decisions and processes could lead to more effective policy decisions. Collectively the authors explore the ways in which the methods and approaches of historical research may be applied to contemporary transport and policy issues across a wide range of transport modes and contexts. By linking two bodies of academic research that for the most part remain separate this volume helps to inform current transport and mobility policies and to stimulate innovative new research that links studies of both past and present mobilities.

Sustainable Railway Engineering and Operations (Hardcover): Simon Blainey, John Preston Sustainable Railway Engineering and Operations (Hardcover)
Simon Blainey, John Preston
R3,757 Discovery Miles 37 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Railways are frequently promoted as one of the most sustainable modes of transport. However, their impact will in practice be significantly affected by the ways in which they are designed, constructed, and used. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in planning, engineering and operating sustainable railway systems. It introduces and examines a wide range of aspects of railway systems and their interrelationships with other human and natural systems. For each of these aspects it considers the key factors that affect the sustainability of the railway. Students, academic researchers and those in rail industry or related fields who are interested in railways or in transport sustainability more generally will find this to be an invaluable guide. It will be particularly helpful to those who are either relatively new to the railway context, or who have a detailed knowledge of one aspect of railways but are seeking to acquire a more holistic understanding of railway systems.

Paths, Tracks and Trails - Designing for Pedestrians and Cyclists (Hardcover): Paolo Ceccon, Laura Zampieri Paths, Tracks and Trails - Designing for Pedestrians and Cyclists (Hardcover)
Paolo Ceccon, Laura Zampieri
R1,083 R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Save R196 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice - both as a low-impact exercise and a healthy means of travel. There is ever-growing demand for the construction of pedestrian and cyclist paths internationally, and it's the rate of growth that highlights new challenges as well as opportunities for landscape designers. This book showcases several exciting design projects of pedestrian and cyclist paths across a range of environments, from cities to local communities, urban to larger national parks. The book includes an informative design guide and a set of criteria that should provide strong reference materials for professionals and students in related design fields.

Streets and Patterns (Hardcover): Stephen Marshall Streets and Patterns (Hardcover)
Stephen Marshall
R4,498 Discovery Miles 44 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main streets - that don't easily fit either set of guidance - in an integrative manner. Streets and Patterns takes up this challenge to create a coherent rationale to underpin today's streets-oriented urban design agenda. Informed by recent research, the book looks behind existing design conventions and beyond immediate policy rhetoric, and analyses a range of first principles - from Le Corbusier and Colin Buchanan to New Urbanism. The book provides a new framework for the design and planning of urban layouts, integrating transport issues such as road hierarchy, arterial streets and multi-modal networks with urban design and planning issues such as street type, grid type, mixed-use blocks and urban design coding.

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature (Hardcover): Karen Trapenberg Frick Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature (Hardcover)
Karen Trapenberg Frick
R4,503 Discovery Miles 45 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of TransportiCA's September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State's and the region's leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter - part epilogue, part reflection - provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.

Place-Based Evaluation for Integrated Land-Use Management (Hardcover, New Ed): Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth Place-Based Evaluation for Integrated Land-Use Management (Hardcover, New Ed)
Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth
R4,520 Discovery Miles 45 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such as housing, industry, environment and water. In other words, land-use planning and infrastructure management have become more spatially-oriented. This book brings together experts in the fields of spatial planning, land-use and infrastructure management to explore the emerging agenda of spatially-oriented integrated evaluation. It weaves together the latest theories, case studies, methods, policy and practice to examine and assess the values, impacts, benefits and the overall success in integrated land-use management. In doing so, the book clarifies the nature and roles of evaluation and puts forward guidance for future policy and practice.

Mobilities (Hardcover): Ole B. Jensen Mobilities (Hardcover)
Ole B. Jensen
R39,273 Discovery Miles 392 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The world is on the move. This is a widespread understanding by many inhabitants of contemporary society across the Globe. But what does it actually mean? During over one decade the 'mobilities turn' within the social sciences have provided a new set of insights into the repercussions of mobilities to social networks, personal identities, and our relationship to the built environment. The omnipresence of mobilities within everyday life, high politics, technology, and tourism (to mention but a few) all point to a key insight harnessed by the 'mobilities turn'. Namely that mobilities is much more than simple movements of people, goods, and information from A to B. This new title creates a state-of-the-art reference work for all students and scholars with an interest in the 'mobilities turn' and its contributions to a deeper understanding of the contemporary and mobile world. The entries chosen all are amongst the most creative and thought provoking of this diverse field. The selection covers diverse topics such as theories, concepts, methods, and approaches as well as exploring various modes of mobilities and the relationship to everyday life practices. The pieces also cover the 'politics of mobilities' from local urban planning schemes to geopolitical issues of refugees and environmental degradation. The spaces and territories marked by mobilities as well as the sites marked by the bypassing of such are explored. Moreover, the architectural and technological dimensions to infrastructures and sites of mobilities will be included alongside issues of power, social exclusion, consumption, surveillance and mobilities history, to mention some of the many themes covered by this reference work of the best previously published material. The focus is on the academic contributions to this understanding by primarily focusing on works and publications in the aftermath of the seminal book and landmark text 'Sociology Beyond Societies. Mobilities for the 21th Century' by John Urry (Routledge, 2000) which in many ways have worked as the starting point for the 'mobilities turn'.

Social Networks and Travel Behaviour (Hardcover, New Ed): Matthias Kowald, Kay W Axhausen Social Networks and Travel Behaviour (Hardcover, New Ed)
Matthias Kowald, Kay W Axhausen
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In aiming to understand and model peoples' out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. Firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel, being less rigid in temporal and spatial patterns and more influenced by external factors such as social contacts or weather conditions. Secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples' social interactions or their personal social networks. In contrast, the recent development and availability of disaggregated models allows more detailed modelling of elements such as individual characteristics, motivations, constraints and travel costs, as well as a consideration of influences from an actor's social environment. People travel not only within an infrastructure but also within a social structure. These two main factors have driven transport planners to focus on peoples' interaction and their social network. In recent years there have been a remarkable number of data collection efforts in the field, surveying information on the link between travel behaviour and social motivation. Providing an overview of selected exemplary studies, this volume addresses the overlap between transport planning and methods of social network analysis; applied methods of social network analysis and related empirical results; and current challenges and new research questions in this field.

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