Publication Detail

"Impacts of ICT on Travel Behavior: A Tapestry of Relationships," chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies

UCD-ITS-RP-13-113

Journal Article

Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways (STEPS), Electric Vehicle Research Center

Available online at: DOI: 10.4135/9781446247655.n14

Suggested Citation:
Mokhtarian, Patricia L. and Gil Tal (2013) "Impacts of ICT on Travel Behavior: A Tapestry of Relationships," chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Journal Article UCD-ITS-RP-13-113

For most people in the developed world, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have permeated nearly every aspect of everyday life, affecting where and how we work, learn, shop, eat, play, reside – and travel. The travel impacts are myriad and complex, including direct effects on decisions about a given trip, as well as the collateral effects on travel arising from ICT impacts on primary activities, on the supply of travel, on medium-term decisions such as auto ownership, and on long-term lifestyle and location decisions. [...]

Edited by Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Theo Notteboom, and Jon Shawp