Matthias Kowald - Social Networks and Travel Behaviour

Edited by
MATTHIAS KOWALD
Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development, Berne
KAY W. AXHAUSEN
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Social networks and travel behaviour / edited by Matthias Kowald and Kay W. Axhausen.

pages cm -- (Transport and society)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-3383-1 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3156-0956-0 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3170-5364-4 (epub) 1. Travel--Social aspects. 2. Travel--Computer network resources. 3. Travel--Research. 4. Transportation demand management.

5. Transportation--Planning. I. Kowald, Matthias, editor. II. Axhausen, K. W., 1958-editor. III. Series: Transport and society.

G149.7S64 2015

306.4819--dc23

2014039911

ISBN 9781472433831 (hbk)

ISBN 9781315609560 (ebk-PDF)

ISBN 9781317053644 (ebk-ePUB)

Dr Theo Arentze is Associated Professor of Urban Planning at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include activity-based modelling, discrete choice modelling, agent-based modelling, supernetwork modelling, human cognition/learning, and traveller information systems for application in transportation and urban planning. He is involved as principle researcher, supervisor or project leader in a constant stream of PhD, Postdoc and EU projects on these topics. He is a member of the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals and acts as an ad-hoc reviewer and program committee member for many journals, conferences and research foundations in transportation, planning, geography and consumer research.

Dr K.W. Axhausen is Professor of Transport Planning at the Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He holds his post in the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Before his appointment at ETH he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universitt, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Universitt Karlsruhe (now KIT) and an MSc from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the past 30 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, micro-simulation of travel behaviour, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling and travel diary data collection. One strand of his current work focuses on the micro-simulation of daily travel behaviour and long-term mobility choices (see www.matsim.org for details). This work is supported by analyses of human activity spaces and their dependence on the travellers personal social network. Recent work is experimenting with direct demand models as a radical alternative to disaggregate and aggregate models.

Juan-Antonio Carrasco is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Concepcin. He holds a PhD in Transportation Engineering and Planning from University of Toronto, and a M.Sc. in Transport Engineering from P. Universidad Catlica de Chile. His main research interest is on understanding and modelling the social dimension of travel behaviour, and the relevance of transport on equity and social exclusion. Currently, he is principal researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), research initiative between P. Universidad Catlica de Chile and Universidad de Concepcin, which seeks to have an integrated research perspective on mobility, heritage, planning, and environmental resources in Latin American cities.

Dr Andreas Frei is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer at the Transportation Center at Northwestern University. He received his doctoral degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in civil engineering. His research and interests in transport planning are in understanding and modelling of travel behaviour, especially the implications of social networks on travellers choices and collective decision making. His dissertation work analysed and modelled trip making decisions beyond the usual measurable indicators, by extending the travellers decision with a social network dimension.

In his career as a researcher, Dr Frei worked on several, mainly data driven projects in logistics, travel demand and supply analysis, optimization of systems and development of software tools. These projects were funded by the private industry (Echo Global Logistics, U.S. Bank Inc.) as well as the public sector, such as the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Federal Highway Administration and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.

Dr Matthias Kowald studied social sciences at University Duisburg-Essen where he graduated in 2007. From 2008 to 2012 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) of ETH Zrich. During this time his research addressed the influence of actors social contacts on the individual travel behaviour. To particularly investigate social contacts influence on leisure travel he managed a survey project that collected data on personal social networks and a population-wide network structure by taking a snowball sample. His research is summarized in his PhD-thesis Focusing on leisure travel: The link between spatial mobility, leisure acquaintances and social interactions. Since 2013 he has worked at the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) where he is in charge of national surveys on travel behaviour and related data analyses.