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"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; and secondly, traditional aggr...
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Ashgate Publishing Company,
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| Publisher Address: | Burlington, VT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Transport and society
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| Summary: |
"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; and secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples' social interactions or their personal social networks. These two main factors have driven transport planners to focus on peoples' interaction and their social network. Providing an overview of selected exemplary studies, this volume addresse |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472433831 (hardback : alk. paper) : |
| Index Number: | G149 |
| CLC: | F590.8-39 |
| Call Number: | F590.8-39/S678 |
| Contents: | Activity spaces, biographies, social networks and their welfare gains and externalities: some hypotheses and empirical results / Kay W. Axhausen -- Qualitative interviews on the formation and maintenance of social networks as foundation for quantitative survey instruments / Timo Ohnmacht -- Egocentric networks in Zurich: quantitative survey development, data collection and analysis / Andreas Frei and Timo Ohnmacht -- Personal networks in a population-wide network structure / Matthias Kowald -- Country specific characteristics matter / Andreas Frei, Matthias Kowald, Pauline van den Berg, and |