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.
Concise Encyclopedia of Traffic and Transport Systems: Transportation Planning: The Activity Approach
1990
23 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Road Transportation , Transportation study methods , Transportation studies , Transportation planning , Driver behavior , Transportation models , Traffic research , Transportation system capabilities , Highway research , Traffic management , Automobile usage , Travel patterns , Route preferences , Trip forecasting , Predictions , Foreign technology , Activity approach
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