Leisure activities play an increasingly dominant role in our daily lives. Their importance has increased steadily over the last 40 years compared with other activities. Considering leisure travel, one would expect to discover this trend in recent empirical work. Unfortunately, this has not been...

The paper provides a first investigation of the suitability of different measures of activity space size to identify persons at risk of social exclusion. This would be a new departure for the measurement of social exclusion, which so far has relied either on aggregate measures of locations or...

This study examines the rhythms in the shopping activity participation of individuals over a multiweek period by modeling the duration between successive shopping participations. A hazard-based duration model is used to model intershopping duration, and a latent segmentation method is applied to...

Die Leistungsfähigkeit öffentlicher Personennahverkehrssysteme gilt als wesentliche Voraussetzung für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und die Lebensqualität urbaner Regionen. Die Sicherung und der Ausbau des Angebotes im ÖPNV zielen auf die Verringerung des intensiven Pkw-Verkehrs, der auch in...

The promotion of Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) is one of the political priorities of the "European Union Strategy for the Danube Region". A growing share of IWT within the regional freight transport market is expected to raise the sustainability of the transport system and provide beneficial...

Austria's GDP grew by just 0.3 percent in 2014, making for a sluggish economy for the third year in a row. Causes for the sluggishness were not just continued investment reticence on the part of businesses and muted expenditure on the part of private households but also the lack of any strong...

The promotion of Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) is one of the political priorities of the "European Union Strategy for the Danube Region". A growing share of IWT within the regional freight transport market is expected to raise the sustainability of the transport system and provide beneficial...

The promotion of inland waterway transport is one of the political priorities of the "European Union Strategy for the Danube Region". A growing share of inland waterway transport within the regional freight transport market is expected to raise the sustainability of the transport system and...