The role of travel is as the means of enabling people to engage in spatially and temporally distinct activities. Activities and travel are therefore interlinked components in the overall pattern of daily behavior. It follows that the characteristics of a single trip such as its timing, destination, mode, route can only be fully understood in relation to the activities in which the traveller participates during the day. The 'Activity Approach' acknowledges this insight as starting point for its analysis. The main questions addressed by the approach are the description and modelling of the daily and weekly activity and travel patterns as a function of the socio-economic situation of the travellers and of the characteristics of the transport system. The report describes the 'Activity Approach' to transportation modelling.


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    Title :

    Concise Encyclopedia of Traffic and Transport Systems: Transportation Planning: The Activity Approach


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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