TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2231 consists of 15 papers that explore non-work travel behavior; applying sequence alignment methods to large activity–travel data sets; dynamic choice set generation; the impacts of information and communication technologies and virtual activities on activity and travel behavior in Cairo, Egypt; and empirical analysis of decision-making and tour formation processes. This issue of the TRR also examines travel determinants and multiscale transferability of national activity patterns to local populations; subjective measure of car dependence; joint analysis of time use and consumer expenditure data; barriers to teenage mobility in the greater Toronto area, Ontario, Canada; dynamic discrete choice model for multiple social interactions; empirical analysis of the activity-planning process; estimating value of travel time savings; an empirical analysis of the built environment, individual attributes, and variability of body mass index of drivers in the Chicago, Illinois, metropolitan area; the propensity to telecommute; and personal network maintenance, face-to-face interaction, and distance. (Author/publisher)
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