Panels for Transportation Planning argues that panels - repeated
measurements on the same sets of households or individuals over time -
can more effectively capture dynamic changes in travel behavior, and the
factors which underlie these changes, than can conventional
cross-sectional surveys. Because panels can collect information on
household attributes, attitudes and perceptions, residential and
employment choices, travel behavior and other variables - and then can
collect information on changes in these variables over time - they
help us to understand how and why people choose to travel as they do,
and how and why these choices are likely to evolve in the future.
This book is designed for a wide audience: survey researchers who seek
information on methodological advancements and applications;
transportation planners who want an improved understanding of dynamic
changes in travel behavior; and instructors of graduate courses in urban
and transportation planning, research methods, economics, sociology, and
public policy. Each chapter has been prepared to stand alone to
illustrate a particular theme or application.
The book is divided into topical parts which address the most salient
issues in the use of panels for transportation planning: panels as
evaluation tools, regional planning applications, accounting for
response bias, and modeling and forecasting issues. These parts describe
panel applications in the US, Australia, Great Britain, Japan, and the
Netherlands. Each chapter is supplemented by extensive references; more
than 400 studies, reflecting the work of more than 700 authors, are
cited in the text.
