Factors influencing travel behavior and their potential solution : a review of current literatures

Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas has developed into a major problem in many countries all over the world. They have a negative impact on the economy, the environment and the overall quality of life. Time-delay, pollution, land user and stress are some of the impact that appear from congestio...

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Main Authors: Mohd. Shariff, Norhazlin, Shah, Muhammad Zaly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Built Environment, UTM 2008
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/8234/1/MohdShariffNorhazlin2008_Factors_influencing_travel_behavior_and.pdf
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description Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas has developed into a major problem in many countries all over the world. They have a negative impact on the economy, the environment and the overall quality of life. Time-delay, pollution, land user and stress are some of the impact that appear from congestion. This paper presents an overview of current literatures on the factors that fluence travel behavior as well their impact. Also, potential solutions to this problem are provided which represent the current thinking of transportation planners in mitigating the adverse impact of motorized traffic to socio-politic well-economic affected countries.
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spelling utm.eprints-82342010-07-27T07:30:17Z http://eprints.utm.my/8234/ Factors influencing travel behavior and their potential solution : a review of current literatures Mohd. Shariff, Norhazlin Shah, Muhammad Zaly NA Architecture Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas has developed into a major problem in many countries all over the world. They have a negative impact on the economy, the environment and the overall quality of life. Time-delay, pollution, land user and stress are some of the impact that appear from congestion. This paper presents an overview of current literatures on the factors that fluence travel behavior as well their impact. Also, potential solutions to this problem are provided which represent the current thinking of transportation planners in mitigating the adverse impact of motorized traffic to socio-politic well-economic affected countries. Faculty of Built Environment, UTM 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/8234/1/MohdShariffNorhazlin2008_Factors_influencing_travel_behavior_and.pdf Mohd. Shariff, Norhazlin and Shah, Muhammad Zaly (2008) Factors influencing travel behavior and their potential solution : a review of current literatures. Jurnal Alam Bina, 11 (2). pp. 19-28. ISSN 1511-1369 http://www.fab.utm.my/download/ConferenceSemiar/JAB2008Jld11No2AR03.pdf
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