Title: SOCIAL TRENDS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING METHODS
Abstract: Major social changes now underway are summarized and their implications for travel and transportation are discussed. The changes which are all interdependent are identified as follows: changes in the American household; transition to the post-industrial society; and changes in price structure of transportation and housing. Demographic and functional changes in American households are leading to the possibility that travel will no longer be statistically associated with traditional predictive variables. More complex life style variables hold promise as ways of explaining and predicting travel in relation to household structure. Urban economies are changing and, the transition to the post-industrial metropolis is transforming the nature of the labor markets and urban form from which travel patterns are also drawn. Also, the price structure of housing and public transportation is also changing in ways that have not yet been fully understood but are causing shifts in travel patterns.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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