Explanations of leisure travel must take the influence of participants' social contacts into
account. To analyze this influence, transport planning uses social network analysis methods …

Joint social activities, in particular those outside households, are currently ignored or
modeled very simply in transport models, despite these sorts of activities contributing to a …

CONTEXT: Models of how people move around cities play a role in making decisions about
urban and land-use planning. Previous models have been based on space and time, and …

Social activity-travel has gained more and more attention as it is a growing percentage of the
whole travel. To study its generation mechanism and behavioral characteristics, social …

Social activities are responsible for an important portion of trips and they constitute the
fastest growing segment of travel. Moreover, social activities and mobility are important …

Activity-based models of transport demand are increasingly used by governments,
engineering firms and consultants to predict the impact of various design and planning …

Abstract Model validation is a significant issue for the modelling of social network-based
transportation models because of the many interacting components (the individuals, the …

Social activities account for a large amount of travel, yet due to their irregularity and the
number of options regarding location, participants, and timing, they are difficult to model and …

The amount of data that home users generate, store, and share with their friends via a
multitude of devices has grown significantly in the past few years. In our paper, we assume …

Collecting data on connected egocentric networks can be done by taking a snowball sample
which belongs to the family of ascending sampling strategies. Collecting data on connected …