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SUMMARY:The future of activity based models and their contribution to poli
 cy making
DTSTART:20150420T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Yoram Shiftan\, Technion\, Israël\nYoram Shiftan is a P
 rofessor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Technion\, where he
  teaches and conducts research in travel behavior with a focus on activity
 -based modeling and response to policies\, the complex relationships betwe
 en transport\, the environment and land use\, transport economics and proj
 ect evaluation. Prof. Shiftan is the editor of Transport Policy and the ch
 air of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). 
 He is the co-chair of the Network on European Communications and Transport
  Activities Research (NECTAR) cluster on Environment and Policy\, member o
 f the World Conference Transporta-tion Research (WCTR) scientific committe
 e\, and chair of its Transport Security Special Interest Group. Prof. Shif
 tan received his Ph.D. from MIT and since then has published dozens of pa-
 pers and co-edited the books "Transportation Planning" in the series of Cl
 assics in Planning\, and "Transition towards Sustainable Mobility\, The Ro
 le of Instruments\, Individuals and Institutions."\nActivity-based models 
 are the new generation of travel demand models. These models treat travel 
 as being derived from the demand for personal activities. The explicit mod
 elling of ac-tivities and the consequent tours and trips enables a better 
 understanding of travel behaviour and more credible analysis of response t
 o policies and their effect on traffic and air quality. These models have 
 various advantages in support of transport project evaluation by being abl
 e to provide detailed disaggregate individual and vehicle activity output 
 that can improve our analysis of emissions and provide various accessibili
 ty measures important for equity and other economic evaluation. This prese
 ntation will demonstrate these various advantages for policy-making and di
 scuss future challenges in using these models to forecast the impact of ne
 w transportation services and technologies promoting sustainable.
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