How time-pressured individuals cope with disturbing events affecting their everyday activities : literature review and conceptual analysis. When conducting daily activities and the associated travel, individuals have to cope with all kinds of interfering events disturbing their plans. Especially time-pressured individuals may be sensitive to the impact of such events. This paper summarizes insights as to how individuals cope with interfering events obtained from the literature on activity and travel behavior. It argues that considerable progress has been made over the past years, although there is further room for improvement. In particular, there is a need for models and theoretical frameworks which not only consider cognition-oriented explanations for individuals’ coping with disturbing events, but also the relevance of social relations for understanding such behavior. The paper therefore outlines a framework that seeks to bring both types of explanatory mechanisms to the fore. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting