• DocumentCode
    2852079
  • Title

    Lessons of a recession for transport demand modelling

  • Author

    Willumsen, L.G. ; Liu, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Steer Davies Gleave, London, UK
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    17-17 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Lastpage
    142
  • Abstract
    This paper attempts to draw some lessons form the economic crisis of 2008-2009 in respect of transport demand modelling. It looks in the following issues: the poor treatment of uncertainty and risk, the limitations of our best theories of human behaviour, the emphasis in equilibrium modelling and the questions whether more complex and disaggregate models are more accurate tools for forecasting.
  • Keywords
    economic cycles; transportation; economic crisis; equilibrium modelling; human behaviour theories; recession; transport demand modelling; uncertainty; equilibrium; modelling; recession; uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Forum on Transportation of China (AFTC 2009), 5th
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp.2009.1602
  • Filename
    5499225