Life Events and Travel Behavior

Active Travel Behavior

Paper is submitted for Presentation at the 88 th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board only. This paper has been submitted for publication in Transportation Letters (July 2008) and therefore does not conform to the word count and citation requirements specified for publication in the Transportation Research Record. ABSTRACT Physical inactivity has become a dominant feature of most...

Travel Behavior and Demand Analysis and Prediction

Model for Disaggregate Travel Behavior

The research field of transportation demand forecasting has started to focus on disaggregate travel behavior and micro-simulation models. To create data infrastructure, disaggregate trip surveys are conducted and large numbers of observations are collected. To efficiently exploit these surveys, the transfer of the individual trip data to a GIS must start with the development of a solid conceptu...

Travel Health Survey: Risk Perception, Health-Seeking Behavior, and Subjective Evaluation of Travel Health Services in Egypt

Introduction: Travel health practice and research in Egypt lag behind both needs and demands. This study was done in two parts to assess travel health knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) among Egyptian travelers. Methods: This survey was conducted at the departure halls of Cairo International Airport and included 1500 travelers to Africa (excluding No...

Air travel and hypoxaemia in real life.

We read with great interest the paper by COKER et al. [1] in an issue of the European Respiratory Journal. The authors conducted the largest prospective study into the outcomes of flights in patients with various respiratory diseases, showing that 18% suffered respiratory symptoms. They concluded that, although air travel seems generally safe in this population of patients under specialist resp...