Joint social activities, in particular those outside households, are currently ignored or modeled very simply in transport models, despite these sorts of activities contributing to a significant amount of travel. We describe an experimental model of social activities, in which individuals...

Rule-based models, such as decision trees, are ideally suited to represent discontinuous effects of independent variables on discrete choice behavior in transport or spatial systems. At the same time, however, the models require that continuous attributes, such as for example travel time and...

Conjoint experiments are usually based on the assumption that respondents consider all attributes varied in the experiment when providing preference evaluations or choosing between choice alternatives. Recently, some research has examined the validity of this assumption by empirically analyzing...

Individual choice behavior usually involves a complex decision-making process, and is often context-dependent reflecting the influence of choice environment and the fact that the individual has limited information processing ability and varying levels of interest in alternatives. However, the...

Revitalisation processes in Western inner-cities and the construction of large-scale shopping malls in developing countries and countries with substantial economic growth require the development of models which allow the prediction of the likely effects of changes in the retail environment and...