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Journal articles on the topic "Travel habit"
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MacInnes, S., F. Ong, and S. Dolnicar. "Travel career or childhood travel habit?" Annals of Tourism Research 95 (July 2022): 103413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103413.
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Katona, Géza, János JuhÁsz, and Balázs Lénárt. "Travel habit based multimodal route planning." Transportation Research Procedia 27 (2017): 301–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2017.12.121.
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Crumley-Effinger, Max, and Blanca Torres-Olave. "Kicking the Habit." Journal of International Students 11, S1 (May 21, 2021): 86–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11is1.3845.
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Examining the hypermobility of many “elite” academic workers, this article situates mobility within the context of higher education and sustainability, decoloniality, and institutionalized expectations for academic travel. The mobility of HEI workers is described in relation to Anthropogenic climate change (ACC), which highlights the need for: (a) critical examination of and responses to the carbon footprint of academic workers; (b) exerting pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) production associated with expected mobility; and (c) deliberate changes to professional mobility approaches that take into account issues of equity vis-à-vis knowledge production, the effects of ACC, and GHG production from academic air travel. We offer an instrument—in the form of queries—to provide starting points for individual deliberations and collective actions to begin addressing these three issue areas.
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Haggar, Paul, Lorraine Whitmarsh, and Stephen M. Skippon. "Habit discontinuity and student travel mode choice." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 64 (July 2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2019.04.022.
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Aarts, Henk, Bas Verplanken, and Ad van Knippenberg. "Habit and information use in travel mode choices." Acta Psychologica 96, no. 1-2 (June 1997): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0001-6918(97)00008-5.
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Gardner, Benjamin. "Modelling motivation and habit in stable travel mode contexts." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 12, no. 1 (January 2009): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2008.08.001.
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Verplanken, Bas, Henk Aarts, Ad Knippenberg, and Carina Knippenberg. "Attitude Versus General Habit: Antecedents of Travel Mode Choice 1." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 24, no. 4 (February 1994): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb00583.x.
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Apsite-Berina, Elina, Andris Klepers, Ieva Jegermane, and Linards Lapa. "Is travelling currently a risk? The impact of COVID-19 and war in Ukraine." Folia Geographica XIX (December 21, 2021): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/fg.19.5.
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The aim of the study is to examine how regular travellers’ behaviour and views regarding international travel have changed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemics and the war in Ukraine. The study includes three research questions 1) how much is travel missed and how do pandemics affect international travel behaviour? 2) how do regular travellers view the danger associated with pandemics and the war in Ukraine? 3) to what extent are future travels perceived as risky? The research is based on statistical data on outgoing tourism and domestic visitor monitoring data analysis, and interviews with 33 regular Latvian travellers. The interviews were conducted during the first quarter of 2022. According to the findings, regular travellers currently feel a lack of excitement about planning trips or international travel experiences. Those who frequently travel for business report a lower level of longing for this experience. The habit of travelling locally has increased due to the lack of international alternatives during the pandemic with restrictions on global mobility. Regular travellers accept the inconveniences caused by the Covid-19 restrictions, but they were afraid and applied self-protection strategies, or even refused to travel entirely, during the first month of the war in Ukraine. Finally, regular travellers are not going to refrain from taking multiple journeys overseas or to Western European countries in the next six months but will avoid travels to zones of military conflict.
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Pitaya, Pitaya, Muhammad Baiquni, Marsono Marsono, and Nopirin Nopirin. "Paradigma Historis Backpacking Travel Sebagai Perjalanan Wisata." Jurnal Pariwisata Terapan 3, no. 1 (March 3, 2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jpt.49274.
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Nowadays backpacking travel is the most popular travelling style which famous to the youth traveller. According to the history, the travelling style can be tracked from the nomadic tribes in all corner of the world for their moving habit for run their life. Through the ages, the nomad who carries backpack at their back to bring necessities adopted by soldiers, explorers, and many kinds of travellers, until transformed to the modern free independent tourist (FIT) ; backpacker, flash packer to the present techno packer. The backpackers itself always become an interesting object for the scholars and the tourism experts. Their travelling style colorized every great journey that men ever made. This paper aim is to seek and identify the existence of backpackers and their travelling style throughout historical paradigm. The methods using in this research is both literatures studies and field observatory to the iconic backpacking travels sites in the history. The results show that the backpackers and backpacking travel consists of unique characteristics who determine their travelling style that different among the common tourist or even the group inclusive tour (GIT). The backpackers travels much longer, more far, they travel some time to the off beaten tracks, they always made interaction with the local community, and their journeys inspired others. No wonder if in the future backpacking travel will contributes so many influences to the tourism world.
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Verplanken, Bas, Henk Aarts, and Ad Van Knippenberg. "Habit, information acquisition, and the process of making travel mode choices." European Journal of Social Psychology 27, no. 5 (September 1997): 539–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199709/10)27:5<539::aid-ejsp831>3.0.co;2-a.
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Haggar, Paul. "Habit discontinuity and travel choices." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/96712/.
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If travel choices are made habitually in specific contexts, rather than deliberately, then, when these contexts change (e.g. with moving house), do travellers deliberate over travel choices and, perhaps, make changes? This thesis investigates this idea (the Habit Discontinuity Hypothesis: Verplanken, Walker, Davis, & Jurasek, 2008). Key literature was reviewed and some important research questions identified. To obtain rich, descriptive information about these experiences, a purposive sample (N = 29) of commuters were interviewed. Thematic analysis of these accounts identified two principal themes: choice factors (reasons for travel choices) and experience of travel. Neither habitual travel-choices nor habit discontinuities were described. Instead, participants identified familiar journeys (on frequently-travelled routes) as habitual and life- events as leading to travel-choice change only when impacting travel goals. Two studies investigated university-student travel-mode choice before and after they moved from one term-time accommodation to another. In each study, a group whose accommodation changed was compared to another group whose accommodation didn't change. Both studies showed a small association between moving accommodation and changing travel behaviour (to or from walking to the university). This association was statistically mediated by (a) prior planning and (b) living with new housemates. Automaticity also changed amongst movers as anticipated. However, evidence with respect to the role of values, ease/difficulty of change and self-regulation failure/ competing priorities with change was inconclusive. There was also no clear evidence that changes in walking distance with residential relocation accounted for change in walking behaviour with residential relocation. These findings are discussed with respect to the habit discontinuity hypothesis, as well as other interpretations.
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Thomas, Gregory Owen. "Exploring alternatives to rational choice in models of behaviour : an investigation using travel mode choice." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619230.
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The car is the most popular travel mode in the UK, but reliance on the car has numerous negative effects on health, the economy, and the environment. Encouraging sustainable travel mode choices (modal choice) can minimise these problems. To promote behaviour change, psychologists have an interest in understanding modal choice. Historically, modal choice has been understood as a reasoned and rational decision that requires a conscious assessment of thoughts and attitudes: but evidence suggests this approach has limitations when promoting behaviour change. Alternatively, processes that are automatically enacted, without conscious effort, can have an influence on thought and behaviour. Two automatic processes in particular have been proposed as useful factors when considering modal choice: habit and affect. Habits are behaviours that are learned over time in stable contexts, have become automatic, and moderate the link between intentions and behaviour. Affect is an automatically positive or negative sensation, which can influence consciously accessed attitudes and perceptions. This thesis explores these two automatic concepts in travel mode choice, with the aim of applying the concepts to promote sustainable travel. Using a mixed-methods approach, initial exploratory work used qualitative and quantitative methods to define how people construct affective responses to modal choice, and whether certain travel modes are more automatic than others. The exploratory work inspired three investigations: modelling the influence of automatic and reasoned decisions to use a travel mode, measuring automatic and implicit environmental preferences, and illustrating how changing the context of routines can increase use of available information. Exploratory and investigative results are then applied in the creation of the UK’s first Walking Network, a series of walking routes designed to deliver targeted information and knowledge to promote walking. This thesis concludes that automatic influences are beneficial factors when considering modal change interventions.
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Murtagh, Shemane. "Understanding school travel behaviour : an application of the theory of planned behaviour and the construct of habit." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18870.
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The purpose of this thesis was to develop an understanding of active school travel and to investigate the effects of a school-based intervention within the context of an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1985, 1991). Specifically, the focus was on understanding the role of habit and cognition in guiding intention and behaviour. This focus was addressed in four studies. The first two studies addressed measurement issues in this area: Study 1 examining the validity and reliability of the Self Report Habit Index (SRHI; Verplanken & Orbell, 2003) as a measure of habit and study 2 examining the validity of a measure of active travel cognition. The third study examined the theory of planned behaviour and the role of habit in predicting active school travel intention and behaviour. Finally, the fourth study examined the effect of a school-based active travel intervention, the Travelling Green resource, at changing these constructs. The findings from the research in this thesis emphasised the importance of both cognition and habit in the prediction of behaviour. However, the ability to change these constructs through the Travelling Green resource was not demonstrated. The implications of these findings in terms of direction for future research and practice are discussed in the final chapter of this thesis.
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Eriksson, Louise. "Pro-environmental travel behavior : The importance of attitudinal factors, habits, and transport policy measures." Doctoral thesis, Umeå, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9789172646261.
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Hebbert, Francis. "Local travel habits of baby boomers in suburban age-restricted communities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45369.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190).
The baby boomer generation is an unprecedented demographic of 78 million Americans, now entering retirement. Living mostly in suburbs and dependent on private vehicles for nearly all travel needs, boomers face increasing mobility challenges as they age. Evidence suggests that walkable and social neighborhoods are important in sustaining independence and good health during later life. Age-restricted communities may offer a social and physical environment that supports an active lifestyle. I use a travel survey to investigate local activity and sociability in age-restricted communities and unrestricted typical neighborhoods in suburban Boston. I explore three techniques to account for residential self-selection, attempting to isolate the true effect of neighborhood location from personal preferences. Controlling for income, retirement and other factors, residents of restricted communities are more active than residents of typical suburbs, with more people making trips on foot and to visit neighbors. Boomers appear to select age-restricted locations to fulfill latent desires to make trips to neighbors, whereas increased walking in the same communities does not appear to be a result of self-selection. The association between age-restricted communities and increased activity suggest that these developments have lessons for better suburban environments. How the communities influence activity is not understood: in models, measures of urban form are not significant, though these developments appear to have different layouts from typical neighborhoods. More detailed analysis and additional data collection may provide a clearer assessment of the role of different neighborhood features in influencing boomer travel habits.
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Jansson, Kajsa, and Amanda Hagman. "Hållbart resande på Högskolan i Gävle : En kvantitativ enkätundersökning om studenters resvanor." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för byggnadsteknik, energisystem och miljövetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32890.
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Den hållbara samhällsutvecklingen hotas av att människor i samband med globaliseringen reser allt mer. Ett ökat behov av att resa har resulterat i större mängder växthusgasutsläpp som i sin tur har en negativ påverkan på klimatet. Förbränning av fossila bränslen står idag för den största andelen utsläpp av växthusgaser i relation till den totala mängden utsläpp i Sverige. De klimatpåverkande utsläppen från vägtrafiken har från och med år 2010 minskat med 18 procent, men för att nå Regeringens uppsatta klimatmål måste utsläppen fortsatt minska med åtta procent varje år fram till år 2030. I linje med Regeringens klimatmål krävs en samhällsomställning med mål att minska transportsektorns koldioxidutsläpp. I denna studie läggs fokus på begreppet hållbart resande med syftet att kartlägga studenters resvanor till och från Högskolan i Gävle och dessutom se över vilka behov, möjligheter och hinder som studenterna upplever i samband med val av transportslag vid resor till och från Högskolan. Detta för att vidare kunna presentera åtgärdsförslag vilka ska främja ett mer hållbart resande. För att kartlägga studenternas resvanor utfördes en kvantitativ enkätundersökning. Enkäten besvarades av 106 studenter på Högskolan i Gävle och var indelad i sex olika delar. Den första delen bestod av grundläggande frågor såsom ålder och kön. I den andra delen kartlades studenternas förutsättningar för ett hållbart resande till och från Högskolan. Den tredje delen berörde studenternas faktiska resvanor till och från Högskolan. Den fjärde delen avsåg undersöka studenternas möjligheter och hinder. I den femte delen behandlades digital undervisning och huruvida studenternas skulle föredra detta. Den sjätte och sista delen avsåg kartlägga deltagarnas attityd gentemot miljöproblem för att se om det fanns ett samband mellan attityderna och studenternas val av transportmedel. Resultatet av enkätundersökningen visade att studenterna i genomsnitt reste 25,2 kilometer från sin bostad till Högskolan. De flesta deltagarna valde transportslaget kollektivtrafik som det primära transportslaget under vinterhalvåret. Under sommarhalvåret valdes transportslaget cykel flest gånger. Den mest betydande faktorn vid val av transportslag var tidseffektivitet och bekvämlighet och de studenterna med lång resväg föredrog i högre utsträckning digital undervisning än de med kortare resväg. Resultatet av undersökningen visade även att deltagarnas val av transportslag inte hade något samband med deras attityder till miljöproblem. Däremot fanns ett samband mellan studenternas attityder till miljöproblem och påverkande faktorer vid val av transportslag. Resultatet av denna resvaneundersökning visade att transportslaget bil inte används i samma utsträckning som i många andra tidigare utförda resvaneundersökningar, vilket är anmärkningsvärt. Resvaneundersökningen påvisar dock ett behov av vissa förändringar och förbättringar som på sikt skulle främja ett mer hållbart resande för studenterna på Högskolan i Gävle.
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Belaieff, Vera. "Barns mobilitet : En analys av barns skol- och fritidsresor samt det kommunala arbetet kring de respektive resorna." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-255892.
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Barn reser mycket, precis som vuxna människor gör. En stor andel av barnens resor går till och från skolan, men utöver det sker även mycket fritidsresor till bland annat föreningsliv och idrottsanläggningar. Hur barn reser i vardagen påverkar både barns hälsa och utvecklande av självständighet. Med anledning av detta handlar detta examensarbete om just barns mobilitet och hållbara vardagsresor. Syftet är att lyfta barns olika resande samt inspirera och ta fram underlag för ett vidare arbete med barns mobilitet. Studien utfördes främst genom litteraturstudier samt enkätundersökningar. En resvaneundersökning gjordes tillsammans med Järfälla kommun för elever och föräldrar på Skälbyskolan, där frågorna undersökte resorna till skolan samt fritidsaktiviteter. En ytterligare enkät skickades ut till kommuner i nätverket ResSmart i Stockholmsområdet, och undersökta huruvida kommunerna arbetar med skol- respektive fritidsresor eller inte samt anledningar till detta. Resultatet av undersökningarna visar att gång och cykel är de vanligaste färdsätten till skolan, oftast själv eller tillsammans med jämnåriga. Skillnaden är dock stor gällande hur många barn som cyklar beroende på årstid, där endast en mycket liten andel cyklar på vinterhalvåret. Till fritidsaktiviteter är det överlägset vanligaste färdmedlet bil, vilket leder till att barnens självständighet kring dessa resor är låg. Anledningen till skjuts till fritidsaktiviteter är främst avståndet men även kopplat till tiden på dygnet och det generella familjepusslet. Vid skjuts till skolan uppgavs anledningen vara tidsbrist och att föräldrarna ändå skulle resa vidare med bilen. Vid jämförelse mellan förortsskolan Skälbyskolan och Gustav Vasa skola i Stockholms innerstad, syns att gång är det vanligaste färdsättet i båda områden. Däremot sker varken skjutsning eller cykling till Gustav Vasa skola, trots att anledningen till skjuts när den väl sker är densamma som vid Skälbyskolan. Gällande det kommunala arbetet är det fler kommuner som arbetar med hållbara skolvägar än barns fritidsresor. Dessutom skiljer sig arbetssättet, och vid arbete med fritidsresor nämns endast fysiska åtgärder och mjuka åtgärder saknas helt. Utifrån resultatet har åtgärdsförslag presenterats för ett utvecklat arbete inom området. För skolresor bör fokus ligga på att påverka föräldrarnas resvanor samt underlätta för vintercyklande. För fritidsresor föreslås istället att mycket åtgärder kopieras från skolvärlden, och där arbetet bör starta med inventering och resvaneundersökningar. Vidare föreslås att mjuka åtgärder ska introduceras, samt att komplexa och långsiktiga åtgärder som fritidsbussar och tätare stadsplanering är nödvändiga. Slutligen menar studien att vidare arbeten och arbete krävs för ett fortsatt utvecklat arbete med barnsresor. Området fritidsresor behöver lyftas både i underlag och information men även i medier och i större forum.Just like adults, children travel regularly in their everyday life. A major part of children’s travels goes to school, but apart from that children also do leisure travels to club activities and leisure facilities. The everyday travel habits of children affect both their health and independence. For this reason, this thesis will embrace children’s mobility and sustainable everyday travels. The aim is to raise the different travel types of children as well as present a basis for continued work within the topic. The study contains of literature research and questionnaires. One of the surveys was made in collaboration with Järfälla municipality. The two questionnaires, one for the students and one for their parents, investigated the travels habits to school and leisure activities for children in Skälbyskolan. Another questionnaire was sent to municipalities in the network of ResSmart. This survey collected information about if and how the municipalities work with children’s school travels and leisure travels, including also the reason why in some cases nothing was done. The result of the surveys showed that walking and cycling are the most common ways of transport to school. Most of the travels was done alone or with other children. Considering the use of bicycle, the use is dependent on the time of the year, where a large proportion cycle in summer but few in winter. To leisure activities, a great majority of the travels are made by car. Because of this, the independence of children’s leisure travel is generally non-existing. The reason why parents drive their children to leisure activities mainly depends on the distance, but also the time of the day in relation to darkness and the general family life. When driving children to school, the main reasons are lack of time and continued travels by car. When comparing Skälbyskolan with Gustav Vasa skola in the downtown of Stockholm, the result showed that walking is to most popular way of travel for both schools. However, neither cycling nor driving was made regularly to Gustav Vasa skola, even if the reasons when actually driving was the same as in Skälbyskolan. Regarding the municipality planning and actions, it is more common that municipalities work with sustainable school travels than children’s leisure travels. Furthermore, the working methods differ, where only physical arrangements are made within leisure travel routes and the lack of mobility management is a fact. With basis in the literature and survey results, action proposals are presented for a developed work within the area. For school travels, the actions should focus on reaching the parents and affecting their choice of mode, as well as actions for easier and more comfortable cycling during winter season. Considering leisure travels is the proposal to copy actions from the work with school travels, where the work should start off with inventions and travel habits surveys in leisure clubs. Furthermore, mobility management actions should be introduced, but also complex and long-term actions including leisure buses for children as well as compact city planning. Finally, the study mean that further work and surveys are needed for continued and developed work with children’s mobility. The area of children’s leisure travels should be raised both in planning documents and information, but also is media and larger forums.
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Ban, Bo. "The potential of incorporating travel habits and behaviour in modelling carbon emissions in the transport system to help build a low carbon future." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/41046/.
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As more in-depth research is carried out in global warming, greenhouse gases and relevant fields, scholars are no longer satisfied with the achievements they have gained in investigating the operating mechanism of greenhouse gases; they want to develop more complex and challenging measures to reduce the impact of human behaviours on the environment and further achieve sustainable development based on the harmony bewteen man and nature. The transport sector, in most countries, has been identified as one of the major sources of the greenhouse gases, second to the industrial and energy sectors, giving rise to the assertion that a proper understanding of the CO[sub]2 emission mechanism in the transport sector, would be helpful to policy makers and urban designers with regard to reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. However, the concept and related studies of CO[sub]2 emission reduction are not yet completed, leading to an absence of a systematic understanding on the CO[sub]2 emissions from small-scale transport system in towns and small regions. Typically when trying to analyse the preference of commuters over transport modes, the increasing number of variables substantially complicates the model; further, an insufficiently clear logic among variables makes the model more complex and existing models do not address the problem clearly. To make a significant contribution to current knowledge, this study has developed a model, covering small-scale regions with full consideration of human activities, which adopts the concept of the grey system. The grey system enables researchers to use historical data to repair data records in the case of constraints and faults in the records. In addition, the model also uses the artificial network algorithm, which functions as a self-improving algorithm, provided that sufficient preliminary data are available. With resort to the self-learning ability and the fuzzy calculating function of the algorithm, the model could simulate and predict the decision making of commuters in order to infer the CO[sub]2 emissions in a small-scale region. Kingston-upon-Thames in the UK is the basis in this model which collects and analyses related data from the transport network in the area. The predictive outcome of the model is found to be consistent with the outcome from a survey conducted by the local council, supported by the UK government. Compared with traditional models, this model can use sporadic data as the basis of the analysis to ensure the accuracy of prediction while substantially reducing costs. In addition, it can build a distinctive data blueprint for specific research questions, satisfy the demand of practitioners and strategists and policy makers, and describe local transport networks with specific travel goals (such as a tourist bus). Moreover, this model is highly adaptable and developed in line with different research needs (policy making, transport system planning, travel behaviour simulation, etc.) in different target groups and regions. This study also summarizes the limitations of the model in its final section while specifying the future direction required to achieve further reduction in CO[sub]2 emissions from transport networks.
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Hayden, Ashley Thomas John. "An empirical investigation to evaluate the impact of travel habits at community level for the formulation of sustainable transport strategies : a case study approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8119/.
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Transportation is a central component to most political, economic, social and environmental issues throughout most inhabited societies. The concerns of transport have become widely acknowledged. It is broadly accepted that promoting alternative forms of transport such as walking, cycling and public transport use is one solution to tackle environmental concerns. Although, delivering, implementing and developing transport strategies to reduce car usage is still highly debated. Transport stakeholders (e.g. planners and policymakers) have long strived to reduce car usage. Many studies have attempted to develop strategies or understand triggers that might encourage and promote a reduction in car use. Despite this, the car usage has typically intensified and alternative forms of transport have become marginalised or discouraged when compared to the car. This research investigates travel attitudes and behaviours of individuals along a specific urban travel corridor within an area of Birmingham, UK. It explores socio-demographic factors using a mixed methods approach that incorporated questionnaires, travel diaries and interviews. This work identified a series of transport measures conceived upon different urban demographic characteristics in order to meet different individuals’ transport need. A significant finding from this work indicated there was an appetite amongst the sampled participants to be willing to reduce their car use if the right transport strategies were introduced. Initially the results from the questionnaire suggested age influenced car use the most, however, other demographic characteristics (e.g. gender and deprivation) were found to be an influential factor.
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Nederman, Amanda, and Ida Englund. "Resvanor i ett mindre samhälle med fokus på cykeln : En fallstudie i Grums kommun." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-56674.
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Syftet med studien är att ta reda på vilka faktorer som påverkar varför människor i ett mindre samhälle med historiskt lågt cyklande väljer att cykla eller inte cykla. Vi vill se vilka faktorer som påverkar cyklandet positivt respektive negativt. Vi önskar också att se om det finns några likheter eller skillnader mellan stora städer och mindre samhällen, jämförelsen kommer göras både i en internationell och nationell kontext. - Vilka faktorer påverkar människors cyklande? Vilka likheter och skillnader finns det mellan befintlig statistik och våra undersökta grupper gällande cykelvaner? Vilka likheter och skillnader finns det mellan cyklandet i ett mindre samhälle jämfört med större städer? Som teori har vi använt oss av tidsgeografi, plats, rum, rumskrig, avståndsfriktion och aktivitetsansatsen. Vi har också titta på tidigare forskning om cykling i större städer och även svensk statistik som tagits fram på olika nivåer. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom enkäter. Enkäterna delades ut via två olika forum, den ena var genom Grums kommun där alla anställda hade möjlighet att svara på en webenkäten. Det andra var utanför en livsmedelsbutik i Grums där alla som passerade hade möjlighet att svara. Det empiriska materialet är uppdelat i bakgrundsfrågor, resvanor och hur respondenterna ställer sig till olika påståenden. Det avslutas med korsanalyser där olika variabler som anses vara av intresse analyseras mot varandra. Våra viktigaste slutsatser är: Människor över 65 år är mindre benägna att cykla än de under 65 år De med gymnasieutbildning som högsta avslutade utbildning cyklar mest Bilen är det vanligaste färdmedlet oavsett målpunkt eller avstånd Tillgång till lånecykel gör inte att respondenterna kommer cykla mer Människor som bor i tätorten cyklar mer än de som bor på landsbygden Långa avstånd gör att människor väljer bort cykeln
The purpose of this study is to find out which factors affect why people in a smaller communities with historically low cyclists choose to ride a bike or not. We want to see which factors affect cycling positively and negatively. We also want to see if there are any similarities or differences between big cities and smaller communities, the comparison will be done in both an international and national context. Which factors affect people's cycling? What are the similarities and differences between existing statistics and our investigated groups of cycling habits? Which are the similarities and differences between cycling in a smaller communities compared to larger cities? As theory, we have used time geography, space, place, space war, distance friction and activity patterns. We also look at previous research on cycling in larger cities and also Swedish statistics developed at different levels. The empirical material has been collected by questionnaires. The surveys were distributed through two different forums, one through Grums Municipality where all employees were able to answer the web questionnaire. The second was outside a grocery store in Grums where everyone who passed was able to answer. The empirical material is divided into background issues, travel habits and how respondents respond to different statements. It ends with cross-analyzes where different variables considered to be of interest are analysed agents each other. People over the age of 65 are less likely to cycle than those under 65 years of age Those with upper secondary education are the most cyclists The car is the most common means of transport regardless of destination or distance Access to the loan cycle does not cause respondents to cycle more People living in the smaller communities area bicycle more than those living in the countryside Long distances make people not choose the bike
Books on the topic "Travel habit"
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The Havana habit. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
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Holon, Naphtali. Hagit the Israeli: A novel. Odessa: TouchFeather, 2013.
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author, McKnight David, and Burton Bob 1959 author, eds. Big coal: Australia's dirtiest habit. Sydney, NSW: NewSouth Publishing, 2013.
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Arrola, Sergio de. Rolling habits: USA part 01. [Madrid]: TF Editores, 2014.
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Bergen, Teresa. Vegetarian Asia: A travel guide. San Francisco: Noble Poodle Press, 1994.
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Doyle, Matthew. The travel needs and habits of non-elderly physically handicapped people. Loughborough: Department of Transport Technology, the University of Technology, 1988.
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Cheng shi mei shi tan fang: She qi guan guang jing dian, yi chang zai di ren qing wei. Taibei Shi: Shen shi shu wei ke ji gu fen you xian gong si, 2016.
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Dao Dongjing, ji de chi tian dian: Sweets travel in Tokyo. Taibei Shi: Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si, 2004.
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DeCarlo, Mark. A fork on the road: 400 cities, one stomach. Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press, 2010.
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Ayashii tankentai Hokkaidō monogoitabi. Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten, 2011.
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Eriksson, Elina, Maria Wolrath Söderberg, and Nina Wormbs. "Exceptionalism and Evasion: How Scholars Reason About Air Travel." In Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, 159–83. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4911-0_7.
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AbstractUnderstanding how scholars reason about their own flying habits is important when dealing with the problems of large emissions from academic air travel. This study is based on a travel habits survey with scholars at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. KTH has relatively high emissions from air travel, but at the same time, it has a high profile in matters of sustainability and a lot of research related to this theme. One can therefore assume a high degree of knowledge about the climate crisis and the climate impact of various actions. It is also plausible that KTH scholars meet special expectations to be role models and that practices in conflict with their teaching can have consequences for the public confidence in the university. In this study, we look at how scholars reason about how emissions from their flying could be reduced. Their responses display a spectrum of varying attitudes, from climate scepticism to a commitment to radical transformation, with the majority in between, either suggesting different types of concrete changes or invoking arguments to justify the status quo. The proposed interventions, several of which are ingenious and wise, can guide university managements to strategies that have support from employees. The more reluctant arguments point to cultural and discursive habits that must be understood and met in an empathetic way.
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Jean-Pierre, Belisle. "Needs and Travel Habits Among the Transportation Handicapped in Montreal." In Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons, 1041–51. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315075525-110.
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Tjostheim, Ingvar, and Staale Heier. "The Characteristics of Wap-Phones Users: Travel Habits, Internet Usage, and Demographics." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2001, 130–38. Vienna: Springer Vienna, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6177-7_14.
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Smethurst, Paul. "‘Habits of a landscape’: the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places and The Old Ways." In New Directions in Travel Writing Studies, 97–110. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137457257_7.
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Jacobson, Lisa. "The Virus and the Elephant in the Room: Knowledge, Emotions and a Pandemic—Drivers to Reducing Flying in Academia." In Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, 209–35. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4911-0_9.
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AbstractThis chapter explores individual incentives and barriers to reducing air travel, with the focus on people who have taken a decision to reduce flying due to climate change. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, six semi-structured interviews were performed with academics—three who had already cut down on flying and three who were grounded due to the pandemic. They were compared with a set of interviews with 26 Swedish citizens, performed in 2017–2018, which had shown that internalised knowledge of climate change was an important driver to change behaviour. Awareness led to negative emotions and a personal tipping point where a decision to reduce flying was made. However, among these interviewees, even people with a strong drive to reduce flying felt trapped in practices, norms and infrastructures. The academics reported similar incentives and barriers as the broader group but also specific challenges for them as researchers. Surprisingly, the pandemic was perceived as a testbed for new travel habits, and not as a big obstacle for their scientific work. None believed that they would return to an equally aeromobile lifestyle, and two of them described it as a chance to reconcile habits with their pro-environmental values.
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Baier, Barbara. "The Interplay Of Holiday-Related Travel Habits And The Use Of New Information And Communication Technologies." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2000, 303–13. Vienna: Springer Vienna, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6291-0_27.
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Kohl, Stephen W., and Ronald S. Green. "In Search of Textual Treasures: The Ōtani Expeditions and Tibet." In Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies, 211–38. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0124-9_8.
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AbstractThis chapter carefully reconstructs some of the Ōtani expeditions that at the beginning of the twentieth century aimed to study the early transmission of Buddhism through Central Asia and to develop relations between Japan and Tibet. By contextualizing these Japanese missions and fleshing out the expectations and reactions of those writing about them, this contribution explores the ways in which Japanese scholars perceived and observed Asian habits and rituals with a focus on religious pilgrimage and sites of worship.Thus, this contribution integrates all the other essays by expanding the volume’s reflections on travel and relationship between past, space, and travelers. It is especially in the spiritual geographies described in Aoki Bunkyō's travel account that we find a spatial ordering of Asia that embodies intra-Asian friendship. This genuine motivation challenges political maps and imperial tensions, adding another dimension to the concept of curiosity, and opening new vistas on the contribution of religious networks and spiritual fellowship to the dissemination of knowledge.
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Casagrande, Gaia. "Visible and Invisible Traces: Managing the Self on Social Media Platforms." In Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 141–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11756-5_9.
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AbstractThis chapter explores the traces that we voluntarily leave behind on social media platforms, dictated by the selection of what we want to show and what we want to hide and how this affects the perception of ourselves.Nowadays, digital platforms have a huge impact on our lives, in re-shaping both our habits and our personal attitudes. Particularly on social media, both tangible and intangible aspects of our lives can be datafied, which in turn affect and shape our feelings and experiences.In order to explore this dynamic, I interviewed a selected target group of young media professionals who are used to promoting themselves and their work on social media, through the so-called practice of self-branding.From the qualitative analysis of 20 in-depth interviews, this chapter investigates traces derived from implicit self-branding practices, which can take the form of controlling what is not to be shared, measuring the online reactions, and hiding relevant information. All these non-activities are also strategic in building and managing the users’ online branded personas.Thus, through the management of the visible and invisible traces on social media profiles, users convey a branded and polished version of themselves.
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Raubal, Martin, Dominik Bucher, and Henry Martin. "Geosmartness for Personalized and Sustainable Future Urban Mobility." In Urban Informatics, 59–83. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_6.
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AbstractUrban mobility and the transport of people have been increasing in volume inexorably for decades. Despite the advantages and opportunities mobility has brought to our society, there are also severe drawbacks such as the transport sector’s role as one of the main contributors to greenhouse-gas emissions and traffic jams. In the future, an increasing number of people will be living in large urban settings, and therefore, these problems must be solved to assure livable environments. The rapid progress of information and communication, and geographic information technologies, has paved the way for urban informatics and smart cities, which allow for large-scale urban analytics as well as supporting people in their complex mobile decision making. This chapter demonstrates how geosmartness, a combination of novel spatial-data sources, computational methods, and geospatial technologies, provides opportunities for scientists to perform large-scale spatio-temporal analyses of mobility patterns as well as to investigate people’s mobile decision making. Mobility-pattern analysis is necessary for evaluating real-time situations and for making predictions regarding future states. These analyses can also help detect behavioral changes, such as the impact of people’s travel habits or novel travel options, possibly leading to more sustainable forms of transport. Mobile technologies provide novel ways of user support. Examples cover movement-data analysis within the context of multi-modal and energy-efficient mobility, as well as mobile decision-making support through gaze-based interaction.
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Mujanah, Siti, Candraningrat Candraningrat, Sumiati, Lutvi Abdullah, Nur Fitriani, and Elvira Aulia Fijannah. "Grouping of Tourist Preferences Towards Tourist Villages in East Java Based on Facial Recognition and Background." In Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Management (INSYMA 2022), 311–20. Dordrecht: Atlantis Press International BV, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-008-4_41.
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AbstractThe research aims to propose a new method for the analysis based on face and picture content recognition technologies, travel habits, and preferences that were grouped by age, gender, and the background of tourist attractions utilized by photographers. This study uses content analysis to identify potential destinations associated with tourists visiting East Java tourist villages. The researchers analyzed 262 photos of 501 people on Facebook and Instagram. The researchers analyzed the state and condition of tourism using photos captured by tourists as the background and classified them according to the dimensions of cognitive imagery such as the natural surroundings, food, public amenities, time and entertainment, the culture of the tourist village destination and history, architectural styles, and rural life. The results show that the leisure and entertainment dimensions have the highest frequency of tourists at 36%, followed by public amenities (27%), natural surroundings (23%), and other dimensions such as food, art, cultural history, architectural styles, and rural life. Further development by the village government and community is needed to attract better tourists to visit the tourist villages, as the tourist village’s success will increase the community’s economy.
Conference papers on the topic "Travel habit"
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Li, Yaping, and Jian Lu. "Investigating the Impacts of Congestion Pricing on Travel Mode Choice Behavior Combing the Automobile Use Habit Heterogeneity." In 19th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784482292.466.
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Kim, Jisun, Henrietta Howarth, Joy Richardson, and John Preston. "User-centred generation of early-concept Mobility-as-a-Service interface designs aimed at promoting greener travel." In Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2023) Integrating People and Intelligent Systems. AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002884.
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With the increasing focus on sustainable travel, there is a particular need for easier journey planning that connects people in areas of current high car dependency with employment and other activities using greener transport modes. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), which may be accessed from a mobile application (app), allows integration of various transport modes along with booking and payment functions into a single mobility service. Careful consideration of a MaaS app interface design is required for it to encourage active and sustainable travel amongst users. This study applied the Design with Intent tool with the aim of generating novel MaaS interface design concepts to support and encourage sustainable journeys in five design workshops involving 23 participants. Participants used 22 design cards each showing a design pattern and applied example from another field as inspiration. They worked in groups to discuss a range of MaaS design ideas that may encourage more frequent use of public transport and active travel. General topics discussed within the workshops included design ideas for: providing relevant information that assists easy and efficient journey planning and execution relating to the use of sustainable travel; promoting achievement of goals and pursuit of value; helping habit formation through positive reinforcement; and enabling personalisation of information to better suit users’ specific needs in travel. Further work is needed to determine which of the resulting design ideas could be implemented within a MaaS app.
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Alanzi, Eman, Nada Kulen, and Thu Huong Nguyen. "MODELLING FACTORS AFFECTING RELIGIOUS TOURISM FLOWS TO SAUDI ARABIA." In GLOBAL TOURISM CONFERENCE 2021. PENERBIT UMT, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46754/gtc.2021.11.024.
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Religious tourism demand is one of the major contributors to Saudi Arabia economy and considered to play an important role in the “Vision 2030”, which seeks to diversify Saudi Arabia’s economy reliance on oil revenues. As the country has undergone structural changes in international tourism and removed travel restrictions in the past few years, there is a need to identify the determinant factors that influence international tourists to plan and manage their trips. Therefore, this current study aims to investigate the effects of economic and noneconomic factors on international tourist flows by using A panel data gravity model for the period 2000-2019. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and the Panel Regression technique. The findings of the regression show that the traditional gravity variables are important to explain Saudi Arabia’s religious tourism demand. The study also has found that habit persistence, the Pandemic Index, GDP per capita of Saudi and the original countries, human rights and investments in the tourist sector have a significant and positive impact on religious tourism demand. While political risks, transport costs, and tourism price have a statistically significant and negative effect on religious tourists’ arrivals. This study will contribute largely to the tourism demand literature by introducing country characteristics factors which include human rights issues as security proxies, pandemics, and quality of life and by measuring the impact of these variables in tourism demand in the context of an oil-based economy that under the transition to a diversified economy with a new vision. The findings of this study may assist in the development of Saudi Arabia’s tourism sector and economic development by providing knowledge to policymakers, investors, and other tourism stakeholders.
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Hasshu, Salim, Francisco Chiclana, Benjamin N. Passow, and David Elizondo. "Encouraging Active Commuting through monitoring and analysis of commuter travel method habits." In 2015 SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/intellisys.2015.7361142.
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Xu, Yuqin, and Kehan Du. "Optimization of Charging and Discharging of Electric Vehicles Considering Residents' Travel Habits." In 2021 IEEE 5th Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ei252483.2021.9713575.
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Pérez García, Diego, and Ignacio Loyola Lizama. "La casa que habito." In Jornadas sobre Innovación Docente en Arquitectura (JIDA). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/jida.2022.11553.
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This text summarizes the methodology used and some considerations derived from the experience of Taller de Arquitectura I (Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción) in order to reflect about this inevitable intersection between canonical architecture and anonymous work always present in the domestic project. Usually, when we study the house, the review of author’s architecture is opposed to the experiences of the buildings, mostly anonymous, that we inhabit. Space, site, and program are the teaching contents on which the student reflects, following Kahn’s logic, understanding the room as the basic unit of all architecture. The result is a collection of singular architectures, where each student, through the addition of rooms, with order, meaning and coherence, react over his/her own decisions. Thus, the professors conduct the design process towards a variety of results which the student is capable of understanding and, therefore, explain. El presente texto resume la metodología empleada y algunas consideraciones derivadas de la experiencia del Taller de Arquitectura I (Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción) con el fin de reflexionar acerca de este inevitable cruce entre la arquitectura canónica y la obra anónima presente siempre en el proyecto doméstico. Generalmente, cuando estudiamos la casa, la revisión de arquitectura de autor se contrapone a la experiencia de las construcciones, mayoritariamente anónimas, que habitamos. Espacio, lugar y programa son los contenidos docentes sobre los cuales el estudiante reflexiona, siguiendo la lógica de Kahn, entendiendo la habitación como unidad básica de toda arquitectura. El resultado es una colección de arquitecturas singulares, donde cada estudiante, a través de la adición de habitaciones con orden, sentido y coherencia, reacciona a sus propias decisiones. Así, el profesorado conduce la didáctica proyectual hacia unos resultados variados que el alumno es capaz de comprender y, por tanto, explicar.
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Is, Hafzullah, Ahmet Anil Mungen, Taner Tuncer, and Mehmet Kaya. "Frequent pattern mining for community dedection in web logs group based habit dedection in community using network traces." In 2017 International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium (IDAP). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/idap.2017.8090293.
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Arreeras, Tosporn, Chanittha Chansuk, and Mikiharu Arimura. "Investigating on Adolescent Traveler Habits, Before and Intra COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case Study of Chiang Rai." In 2022 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications (DASA). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dasa54658.2022.9765315.
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Markelov, Konstantin, Pavel Karabushenko, Rafik Usmanov, and Vyacheslav Golovin. "The international north-south transport corridor: history, modernity, prospects." In East – West: Practical Approaches to Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism. Dela Press Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56199/dpcshss.eaxq2094.
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Since ancient times, the trade route "from the Varangians to the Persians" and on to India was used by caravans of merchants from all over the multifaceted Eurasia. This route also served as a means of cultural and religious exchange, spreading knowledge and everyday habits. The history of this issue shows that the political and economic elites who initiated diplomatic and trade missions were primarily interested in developing and optimizing trade. The current drive to revive this route in the form of the International North-South Transport Corridor (ITC) is designed to bring integration processes to a higher geopolitical and geo-economic level. The paper analyzes the current status of the project, contains proposals for its optimization and expresses confidence that its implementation will enhance the integration of the Eurasian continent and increase its security.
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Martinčević, Ivana, Predrag Brlek, and Nives Domjan. "ROLE OF MaaS IN TOURISM." In Tourism in Southern and Eastern Europe 2021: ToSEE – Smart, Experience, Excellence & ToFEEL – Feelings, Excitement, Education, Leisure. University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20867/tosee.06.34.
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Purpose – The occurrence of bottlenecks, congestion, increased fuel consumption and environmental pollution are the basic problems of large urban areas, especially when it comes to tourist areas where with the local population roads are used by visitors who, during or after a stay are looking for some way of transportation. Regardless of the final destinations, the tourist activity strives to meet the needs and requirements of visitors to the maximum, so their offer must be attractive, fast and accessible at all times, as well as adaptable to changes in travel habits. With regard to the specific criteria of the local economic, social and environmental policy mobility services should be adapted to different target groups, including a unique travel option that would facilitate the stay of tourists. The aim of this paper is to: (1) explore MaaS concept (2) explore the importance and benefits of MaaS concept (3) and to explore the importance and benefits of MaaS concept in area of tourism. Methodology – In order to investigate and achieve the set goals, world and Croatian literature was used and analyzed by searching the databases such as Wos, Scopus, Google Scholar, using the search phrase ("mobility as a service” OR sustainable development) AND (“transport” OR “tourism”). For this purpose, a survey was conducted to explore the importance of MaaS in the field of tourism on the basis of which the advantages and benefits of the mentioned concept as one of the main conditions for sustainable development were analyzed. Findings – As no research has been conducted in the territory of the Republic of Croatia that investigates the application of the MaaS concept in the field of tourism and its importance and contribution to strengthening tourism, this research contributes to strengthening the awareness of individuals about this concept and its application. The intention and goal of this research was to make aware general public of the importance of the Maas concept. Although MaaS concept is a relatively new concept it takes on increasing importance; therefore, it needs to be strongly and systematically developed further. By analyzing the relevant scientific sources and based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that a strategic approach to the MaaS concept can provide a numerous of advantages and benefits. Recommendations for further research is to include data from other countries of the European Union (EU) or from neighboring countries in order to be able to compare data by specific areas. Contribution – By introducing the concept of MaaS in the segment of tourism, it opens the possibility for visitors to access a wide selection of public and private carriers through a digital platform. The trip for each user is planned separately according to the previously collected data on the demand and supply of transport services, combining them with information on the preferences of the participants themselves. Simply put, the traveler can plan, book and pay for any trip, anywhere and at any time. Simultaneous planning of tourism and transport is not an easy task because in most cases these plans diverge, but the cooperation of stakeholders of both branches is necessary for more attractive and environmentally friendly measures of sustainable mobility that ultimately affect the development of tourism. The obtained results can be used to expand the current scientific knowledge about the MaaS concept and its impact in file of tourism.
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Appleyard, Bruce, and Tim Garrett. Incorporating Public Health into Transportation Decision Making. Mineta Transportation Institute, January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2023.2150.
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Investments in transportation have the potential to significantly affect public health outcomes. Decisions to build highways, transit, or bikeways, for example, influence how residents and visitors move around a metropolitan area. Personal travel habits and proximity to transportation infrastructure play a role in how likely people are to be physically active or be exposed to dangerous traffic and toxic pollution. For this study, the research team reviewed the literature that links transportation infrastructure, the surrounding built environment context, and public health outcomes such as chronic heart and lung diseases, obesity, and death. The team then researched publicly available data that planners could use to inform decision-makers about the public health effects of funding certain investments. Finally, the team reviewed the guidelines of existing discretionary grant programs administered by the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and proposed improvements that would better incorporate available data on public health for consideration. These steps can positively influence funding decision-making for better public health outcomes in California.