ABSTRACT
This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments.
Over the past decade, rapid development of ICT has led to extensive social impacts and influence on travel and mobility patterns within urban spaces. A new field of research of digital social networks and travel behaviour is now emerging. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge, cutting-edge research and integrated analysis methods from the fields of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It explores the challenges related to the question of how we can synchronize among social networks activities, transport means, intelligent communication/information technologies and the urban form.
This innovative book encourages multidisciplinary insights and fusion among three disciplines of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It offers new horizons for research and will be of interest to students and scholars studying mobilities, transport studies, urban geography, urban planning, the built environment and urban policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|127 pages
Information and communication technology social networks and travel behaviour – theory and practice
chapter 5|22 pages
The relationship between social networks and spatial mobility
chapter 6|14 pages
On the relative importance of social influence in transport-related choice behaviour
chapter 7|24 pages
Social networks in transit
part II|97 pages
The urban perspective of information and communication technology social networks and travel behaviour