The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of the travel distance of tourists on the demand for domestic tourism in Mashhad. Data used in this research was cross-sectional which includes 1388 domestic tourist families who stayed for at least one night in Mashhad City in 2005. The sample was selected using a randomized stratified sampling method and the data was gathered by a...

41 REASONS FOR DEMAND MANAGEMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS Despite the already overcrowded roads, especially in and around the Dutch conurbation, a further growth in the use of cars is expected in the near and farther future. Demographic and economic forces are the main factors for this development. There is widespread consensus, not only in The Netherlands, that building roads is not the right answer...

Due to population growth in urban areas, especially in the capital cities in developing countries, the use of private vehicles are increasing, leading to many problems such as congestion, pollution, noise, long travel time, high travel cost and more side effects. In such circumstances government policy would encourage people to use public transportation. In the meantime, employing the Intellige...

A supernetwork is usually defined as an augmented network that consists of a “basic network” for route choice and a “virtual network” for other travel choices. Supernetwork representations are useful pedagogical device to interpret various combined travel choice models as an extension of the fixed demand traffic assignment problem. Based on three proposed criteria, this paper reviews current su...

In this paper some experimental sequential models for the simulation of trip-chains are presented; the models have been calibrated on the base of a survey made in a medium-sized town. This work is part of a research, effected by the Department of Regional Planning of the University of Calabria, to forecast travel demand and to analyse travel behaviour of the transport system users. (Festa et al...

Since the beginning of civilization, the viability and economic success of communities have been, to a major extent, determined by the efficiency of the transportation infrastructure. To make informed transportation infrastructure planning decisions, planners and engineers have to be able to forecast the response of transportation demand to changes in the attributes of the transportation system...

Stated simply, the motivation for activity based travel demand modeling is that travel decisions are activity based. Concerns about congestion, emissions and land use patterns have lead governments to consider policies aimed to aaect travel decisions. Examples of policies include employer based commute programs, single occupant vehicle regulation, road pricing, multimodal facilities and transit...

an understanding of patient mobility, international patients and medical tourism includes supply and demand side considerations. as well as micro-level reports of motivation and satisfaction we must acknowledge broader system-level dynamics. exploring these may unearth more complex geographies of patient travel.