Conceptual and methodological approaches to representing, understanding, analysing and modelling travel behaviour

个人行为的概念化、测量和建模是社会科学研究和实践中许多挑战的核心，并在其2009-14年战略计划中被确定为ESRC投资的优先领域。在交通方面，对个人行为的分析和建模是政策制定和投资评估的核心，这意味着这一领域的研究可以对政策结果产生直接影响。在过去的50年里，我们对旅行行为和与旅行相关的众多社会实践的看法发生了根本性的变化，从对孤立的旅行和流量的精算计算，发展到将旅行理解为活动规划和参与的复杂模式的一部分，具有多个目标，并在不同的时间尺度上发挥作用。这些变化反过来又对实际运输建模和需求分析的方式产生了重要影响。随着我们对旅行行为概念化的改变，测量和建模的新挑战也出现了，同样，新的概念；在社会科学和其他领域，测量和建模能力已经得到了发展，它们使对旅行行为的更丰富的理论和概念理解的操作化成为可能。然而，到目前为止，这些相互作用是断断续续的，碎片化的，并且只涉及到相对有限的社会科学投入。这项研究扫描练习的目的是将社会科学界和交通研究人员聚集在一起，以更全面的方式考虑这些挑战，评估当前可用的概念和方法，预测该领域可能的未来发展方向，从而积极激发社会科学与交通等关键应用领域的工作人员之间的创造性互动。这项工作将通过一系列会议和讲习班进行，汇集运输和社会科学领域的主要专家，并通过委托编写的审查文件进行，并与一系列传播和后续活动联系起来。

The conceptualisation, measurement and modelling of individual behaviour is at the heart of many challenges in social science research and practice, and is identified as a priority area for ESRC investment in its Strategic Plan for 2009-14. In transport, the analysis and modelling of individual behaviour is central to policy development and investment appraisal, which means that research in this area has scope for direct influence on policy outcomes. The way we think about travel behaviour and the multitude of social practices associated with and facilitated by travel has changed fundamentally over the past 50 years, evolving from an actuarial accounting of isolated trips and flows to an understanding of travel as part of the complex pattern of activity planning and participation, undertaken with multiple objectives and played out over a range of different times scales. These changes have in turn importantly influenced the way that practical transport modelling and demand analysis has been undertaken. As our conceptualisation of travel behaviour has changed, so new challenges for measurement and modelling have been presented, and likewise, as new conceptual;, measurement and modelling capabilities have been developed within the social sciences and elsewhere, they have made possible the operationalisation of richer theoretical and conceptual understandings of travel behaviour. To date, however, these interactions have been episodic and fragmented and have drawn on a relatively limited range of social science inputs. The objective of this research scanning exercise is to bring together communities of social science and transport researchers to consider these challenges in a more holistic manner, to take stock of the current array of conceptual and methodological approaches available, anticipate likely future directions of development for the field and thereby to actively stimulate creative interaction between the social sciences and those working in key application areas such as transport. The exercise will proceed through a series of meetings and workshops, bringing together leading experts from transport and the social sciences, and through commissioned review papers and linked to a range of dissemination and follow up activities.