Study on Peak Travel Avoidance Behavior of Car Travelers during Holidays

Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters’ travel behavior

Peak Car and Beyond: The Fourth Era of Travel

There is emerging evidence that personal daily travel, particularly by car, has ceased to grow in the developed economies. This can be attributed to saturation of demand, given high levels of access and choice now widely available, together with constraints on higher speeds. We are therefore at a time of transition from an era of growth of per capita travel to an era of stability, in which the ...

Representation of Tehran during Qajar reign (Naseri period) in French travelers’ travel journals

Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

Peak car and increasing rebound: a closer look at car travel trends in Great Britain

This paper uses econometric analysis of aggregate time-series data to explore how different factors have influenced the demand for car travel in Great Britain since 1970 and how the rebound effect has changed over that time. Our results suggest that changes in income, the fuel cost of driving and the level of urbanisation largely explain travel trends over this period – with recent reductions i...

Travelers’ health problems and behavior: prospective study with post-travel follow-up

BACKGROUND The annual number of international tourist arrivals has recently exceeded one billion, yet surprisingly few studies have characterized travelers' behavior, illness, and risk factors in a prospective setting. Particularly scarce are surveys of data spanning travel, return, and follow-up of the same cohort. This study examines behavior and illness among travelers while abroad, after re...