Contemporary organisational realities challenge consultants to develop: more up‐to‐date motivational knowledge; the ability and willingness to work with change agents unsympathetic to applied social science; and, facility with methodologies for both cultural and structural change. Changes over...

<title>Abstract</title> Road network planning (or design) problems consist of determining the best investment decisions to be made with regard to the improvement of a road network. In this paper, we propose an optimization model for long-term interurban road network planning where accessibility and robustness...

Travel Behaviour is a challenging and original volume, adding to the growing literature focusing on understanding transportation systems. The book capitalises on actual scientific and applied developments in Europe, the importance of EC policies and the resultant trend in studying differences...

The trip timing and mode choice are two critical decisions of individual commuters mostly define peak period traffic congestion in urban areas. Due to the increasing evidence in many North American cities that the duration of the congested peak travelling periods is expanding (peak spreading),...

The objective of this paper is to verify/validate the results of an application of the Travel Activity Scheduler for Household Agents (TASHA) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada. Activity generation and scheduling components of TASHA are validated using 1996 and 2001 travel survey data for...

An integrated model of vehicle transactions, activity scheduling and mode choice is estimated based on a retrospective vehicle transaction survey in the Toronto Area. First a conceptual framework is presented which links long run decisions of automobile transactions with short run decisions of...

Investigating the factors and processes that influence the spatiotemporal distribution of built space and population in an urban area, plays an extremely important role in our greater understanding of the urban travel behaviour. Existing location of activity centres, especially home and work,...

The Regional Municipality of York, north of the City of Toronto, introduced a new bus service known as VIVA in 2005. This distinctly branded system operates primarily in two highly-travelled corridors and features high operating speeds, offline fare payment, advanced traveller information...

Office location has important impact on urban form and the transportation system in urban areas. One of the ways to study office location decisions uses surveys of managers and owners of office firms regarding the firm location decision process. The following article presents an analysis of the...