International Workshop

Frontiers in Transportation

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada

October 20-22, 2011

 

Program

October 19

 

 

After 12:00 PM

Arrival of participants and hotel check in

18:00-19:00

Organizational meeting (convening committee)

 

 

 

October 20

 

 

8:00-8:30

Introductory Remarks

Antonio Páez

8:30-10:30

Session: Social agents: Concepts and perspectives

 (Moderator: Theo Arentze)

01.  Self-selection into social environments:  What is it, why should we care, and what should we do about it?

Pat Mokhtarian

02.  Borrowing from sociology: Adapting collective efficacy to studies of the social environment and travel behavior

Noreen McDonald

03.  The quantified traveler: Using personal travel data to promote sustainable transport behavior

Joan Walker

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Session: Social influence and behavior

(Moderator: Darren M. Scott)

04.  Incorporation social networks in models of collective decision making in leisure activities

Andreas Frei

05.  Social network effect in seatbelt use

Frank Goetzke

06.  Opportunities for Understanding the Social Component of Physical Activity

Darren M. Scott

13:00-15:00

Lunch Break

15:00-17:00

Session: Mobility and social contact

(Moderator: Tim Ryley)

07.  A novel approach to investigate contact fields

Antonio Páez

08.  A metric for the social interaction potential of metropolitan regions: A time-geographic approach using joint accessibility

Steven Farber

09.  Wellbeing, social contacts and daily activities

Donggen Wang

17:00-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:30

Keynote Lecture: Collaborative mobility: Using geographic information science to cultivate cooperative transportation systems

Harvey Miller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 21

 

 

8:30-10:30

Session: Agent interactions

(Moderator: Joan Walker)

10.  A method to model population-wide social networks for large scale activity-travel micro-simulation

Theo Arentze

11.  Dynamic modeling of travellers’ social interactions and social learning

Erel Avineri

12.  Agent-based travel demand models and social networks: Next challenges

Kay Axhausen

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Session: Methods

(Moderator: Kay Axhausen)

13.  T-communities and sense of community: Analysis based on a spatial ordered probit model

Antonio Páez

14.  A path analysis of social networks, ICT use and social activity-travel patterns

Pauline van den Berg

15.  Modeling socio-dynamic discrete choice on networks: A methodological

review and open questions

Elenna R. Dugundji

13:00-15:00

Lunch Break

15:00-17:00

Session: People and places, people in places

(Moderator: Rachel Weinberger)

16.  Interactions across physical and social space in infrastructure-poor regions

Petr Matrous

17.  Examining the impact of social interactions on decision making of destination choices

Kate Deutsch

18.  Places of leisure: How does the urban environment influence students’ joint leisure activities

Dick Ettema

17:00-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:30

Keynote Lecture: Transporting trust: Micro-geography, destination-less travel, and familiar strangers

Rick Grannis

 

 

 

October 22

 

 

8:30-10:30

Session: Case studies

(Moderator: Elenna Dugundji)

19.  The spatiality and frequency of interaction of personal networks in four countries: A comparative study

Juan A. Carrasco

20.  An examination of how travellers react to uncertainty caused by extreme weather conditions: Integrating social network analysis and discrete choice models

Tim Ryley

21.  A dynamic analysis of monthly tourism participation behavior incorporating social interaction effects

Junyi Zhang

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break + Check Out

11:00-12:00

Keynote Lecture: The impact of distance on a networked scholarly organization: Preliminary results

Barry Wellman

12:00-13:00

Concluding Remarks, Open Discussion

13:00-14:00

Lunch


 

 

 

List of Participants

 

Arentze, Theo

8T.A.Arentze@tue.nl

 

 

 

Avineri, Erel

8erel.avineri@uwe.ac.uk

 

 

 

Axhausen, Kay

8axhausen@ivt.baug.ethz.ch

 

 

 

Bhat, Chandra

8bhat@mail.utexas.edu

 

 

 

 

Carrasco, Juan A.

8j.carrasco@udec.cl

 

 

 

 

Deutsch, Kate

8deutsch@geog.ucsb.edu

 

 

 

 

Dugundji, Elenna R.

8E.R.Dugundji@uva.nl

 

 

 

 

Ettema, Dick

8ettema@geo.uu.nl

 

 

 

 

Farber, Steven

8farbers@mcmaster.ca

 

 

 

 

Frei, Andreas

8andi.frei@gmail.com

 

 

 

Goetzke, Frank

8f0goet01@louisville.edu

 

 

 

 

Grannis, Rick

8rickgrannis@cox.net

 

 

 

 

Matous, Petr

8pmatous@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Miller, Harvey

8harvey.miller@geog.utah.edu

 

 

 

 

McDonald, Noreen

8noreen@unc.edu

 

 

 

 

Mokhtarian, Pat

8plmokhtarian@ucdavis.edu

 

 

 

 

Páez, Antonio

8paezha@mcmaster.ca

 

 

 

 

Ryley, Tim

8t.j.ryley@lboro.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

Scott, Darren M.

8scottdm@mcmaster.ca

 

 

 

 

van den Berg, Pauline

8P.E.W.v.d.Berg@tue.nl

 

 

 

 

Walker, Joan

8joanwalker@berkeley.edu

 

 

 

 

Wang, Donggen

8dgwang@hkbu.edu.hk

 

 

 

 

Weinberger, Rachel

8rrw@design.upenn.edu

 

 

 

 

Wellman, Barry

8wellman@chass.utoronto.ca

 

 

 

 

Zhang, Junyi

8zjy@hiroshima-u.ac.jp