Elsevier Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome

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. Review A comprehensive look at what is known - and what needs to be researched - on travel behavior. From the Back Cover Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on the motivational, cognitive, situational, and disposition factors that drive activity-travel behavior. Organized into five themes: psychometrics; pattern recognition; human interaction; new data collection/surveys; and modeling & simulation, Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome provides insights into the diversity of travel behaviors. Including the movement of goods as well as the movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms, attitudes, and constraints lead to observed behaviour, how to design efficient infrastructure and services to meet tomorrow's needs for accessibility and mobility, and how to implement policies for improving sustainability. The book focuses on analysing modeling of travel demand, analysing policy needs, data collection, and both theoretical and computational approaches. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm shift towards more dynamic, user-centric, demand responsive transport services, including the ?sharing economy,? Mobility as a Service, automation, and robotics. It identifies who gains and who loses from these innovations while quantifying their social, economic, and environmental impacts. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome provides a comprehensive approach to research directions to answer travel behavior questions emerging from new market forces and disruptive technologies. About the Author 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. Adam W. Davis is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, United States. He holds a PhD and MA from the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. His research is on travel behavior, spatial computational methods, spatial perception, and network-based analysis. He also worked as a research