ABSTRACT
The scope of the workshop was to review the policy framework in which the evaluation and other advice emmanating from behavioural travel models are used. The workshop was fortunate in having two resource papers that raised most of the issues in the sphere of interaction between behavioural models, forecasting and evaluation, and policy that were of concern to the other members of the workshop. A greater emphasis on transferability of data between models and modelling situations would reduce study costs and increase the usefulness of models. Investigation of an essential modelling assumption, that concerning the value of time over time has been largely ignored by transport modellers. Goods movement modelling has not attracted the attention justified by the importance of freight in both urban and inter-urban situations. Current transport models are generally concerned with demand changes as a consequence of investment changes and are not suitable for the analysis of changes in transport supply conditions.
