Digitisation of life: addressing behavioural shortcomings in agent-based activity-travel models

在数字时代，参与活动已不再受物理位置和时间的限制。远程工作、远程学习和网上购物等活动对活动选择和旅行行为有明显的影响。例如，网上购物的人在周末会减少去实体店的次数，但他们会在工作日的营业时间更多地去当地邮局取货和/或寄回网上购物的商品。本研究旨在探讨数字化对城市生活的广泛影响，并改进当代活动-旅行模型的活动生成和存储模块，以适应远程活动的作用和影响。本研究旨在完善基于活动的出行需求模型体系的总体框架，并为探索数字化时代的不同政策情景提供工具包.社会科学专业人员、决策者、公共卫生官员和交通规划者将对研究项目成果感兴趣。

Participation in activities has become less constrained to physical location and time in thedigital era. Such activities as teleworking, distance learning and online shopping are shown tohave explicit impacts on activity choices and travel behaviours. For example, people engaged inonline shopping will reduced their visits to the brick-and-motor shops over the weekend.However, they will visit the local post office more often in the weekdays during business hoursto pick up and/or send back goods shopped online. This research aims to investigate the broadimpact of digitisation on urban living and improve the activity generation and schedulingmodule of the contemporary activity-travel models to accommodate the role and effects oftele-activities. The proposed research is intended to enhance the overall framework of activitybasedtravel demand model system and provide a toolkit to explore different policy scenarios inthe digital era. The research project outcome would be of interest to social scienceprofessionals, policy makers, public health officials and transport planners.