Travel Behavior 2010, Volume 1

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2156 includes 18 papers that explore car ownership among young adults, time-dependent utility in activity and travel choice behavior, probit-based discrete-continuous model of activity choice, strategic thinking and risk attitudes in route choice, the impact of immigrant status on household auto ownership, experimental economics in transportation, and process-oriented analysis of route choice decision making.

This issue of the TRR also examines the effect of household sociodemographics, lifestyles, and built environment on travel behavior; data-mining approach to work trip mode choice analysis; spatiotemporal changes of traffic demand price elasticities; analyzing travelers' intention to accept travel information; variation properties of time use behavior; time use utility derived by older individuals from daily activity-travel patterns; how accessibility shapes acquisition and disposal of cars; sequential and simultaneous estimation of hybrid discrete choice models; traveler behavior and values analysis in the context of vacation destination and travel mode choices; built environment and school travel mode choice; and disaggregated empirical analysis of determinants of urban travel greenhouse gas emissions.