Martin Lee-Gosselin

Université Laval | ULAVAL · Centre de Recherche en Aménagement et Développement

High quality, comprehensive data on travel behaviour, transport network performance and land use characteristics are essential to the planning and design of urban transport systems. Such information is derived from a variety of sources. In order to gain an understanding of current Canadian collection practice, issues and needs, a survey of transpor...

This paper summarizes the findings from the workshop “Improving methods to collect data on dynamic behavior and processes”. This workshop focused on the scope, strengths and weaknesses of traditional and innovative survey methods used to capture dynamics in travel behaviour and on the identification of future research priorities. This paper gives a...

The current research effort examines the relationship among four individual level daily activity travel choice processes: spatial flexibility of the activity, temporal flexibility of the activity, activity vehicle choice, and primary driver (for auto users). Activity flexibility (spatial and temporal) has been suggested as a precursor to the observ...

Across a range of developed societies, rates of driver's license acquisition by young adults have fallen from their historic peak levels (which in Britain were in the early 1990s). A widely discussed hypothesis to explain this trend is that the heightened environmental sensitivity of the current cohort of young adults could be fully or in part resp...

There are nearly two million subscribers to carsharing services worldwide. These services can provide large benefits both to users and the general public (e.g., through emissions reductions). There has not however previously existed a general framework for forecasting their market potential and impacts that is sensitive to the way that they re-stru...

The notion of spatio-temporal accessibility to [potential] out-of-home activities is central to transport geography. This paper extends existing theory by proposing a new concept of accessibility, termed the ‘perceived activity set’ (PAS). A person’s PAS is defined as the set of out-of-home activities which they view as encompassing their potential...

Purpose — In the context of evaluating transportation and carbon emission policies, improve weekly activity and mobility scheduling survey methodology in order to enhance data quality while reducing costs and decreasing respondent burden for designing continuous self-administered surveys that are predominantly passive (or computer-assisted). Approa...

This book provides an international perspective on improving information to support transportation decision making. It comprises a selection of papers plus workshop syntheses from the 9th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods in Chile in November 2011. The conference was organized into 14 workshops with both paper presentations and d...

Purpose — The principal hypothesis of this program of research is that people's choices of which resources to own are a function of expected travel needs. Methodology/approach — This chapter reports recent research using a stated-choice survey design that is innovative in two respects. First, respondents are asked to consider two types of choice ha...

This paper presents an approach to investigating the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on travel behaviour and its environmental effects. The paper focuses on the spatial dispersion of out-of-home activities and travel (activity space) and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) at the level of the individual. An original method,...

This paper presents findings from a small-sample qualitative study on people's activity travel behavior in the presence or absence of carsharing. A carsharing service provides its subscribers with short-term access to a fleet of shared cars. In previous research, subscribers have reported distinctive travel patterns, such as more car usage by subsc...

The paper examines the determinants of urban travel greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, we examine the impact of individual and household socio-economic characteristics as well as the effect of land use and transit supply characteristics around the residence and work place. The analysis uses an activity-based longitudinal panel survey in the Qu...

This paper presents a methodological disaggregated approach to analyze the impact of interventions on road safety. The model aims to describe the accident rates of an individual using mileage as a measure of risk exposure. The model is formulated as a system of equations that takes into account interactions between the mileage of a given individual...

A disaggregate approach is proposed for estimating travel-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the individual level by using an in-depth multiday activity-based survey in Quebec City, Canada. A random-effect model is then estimated to quantify the impact on emissions of individual and household socioeconomic characteristics as well as urban fo...

Guest editorial. This special issue comprises a selection of papers, earlier versions of which were presented at an international colloquium on the possibility of rationing fuel in view of growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The colloquium was part of the series “Entretiens Jacques Cartier”, held in Lyon (France) in December 2006.

This chapter examines the current status of data collection methods employing location/time-aware devices to observe evolving patterns of spatio-temporal behaviour, including patterns that are affected by ICTs. Drawing mostly on transport research, it is suggested that two streams of development have emerged: a "passive" stream that maximises the a...

Transport survey methodologists and practitioners shared their experience with keeping abreast of the data needs of a rapidly changing world at the 2008 International Conference on Transport Survey Methods in Annecy, France. Over the past decade, this has translated into the need for: an expanded travel survey toolkit; methodological innovation for...

This paper offers a North American perspective on the possible reaction of the general public to regulatory instruments addressing energy consumption, and by implication, carbon emissions. Its purpose is to reflect on some of the lessons learnt from research on consumer behaviour undertaken by the author and colleagues in the wake of the oil shorta...

The first wave, conducted in 2002–2003, of an in-depth panel survey in Quebec City, was used to compare the out-of-home activities of adults who had the use of mobile phones, or of internet at home, to those who did not. A unique feature of the survey was the inclusion of respondents’ perceptions of the both the temporal and the spatial flexibility...

A new measure of 'voraciousness' in leisure activities is introduced as an indicator of the pace of leisure, facili-tating a theoretical linkage between the literature on time pressure, busyness and harriedness in late modernity, and the literature on cultural consumption. On the methodological side it is shown that time use diaries can pro-vide at...

In this paper we discuss to what extent transport policy fails to integrate five types of external effects, and what kind of research needs follow from the objective to make transport sustainable. The discussion is a synthesis of the findings collected and synthesized in the framework of Focus Group 4 of the STELLA project. The assignment of Focus...

Transportation causes various external effects with respect to environmental functions, spatial organisation, public health, and safety and security. Furthermore, congestion is an external effect within the transport system. Starting from the assumption that transport systems should fulfil sustainability criteria, the aforementioned external effect...

This paper presents a modelling and simulation procedure to evaluate optimal routes (minimising impedance costs) and to compute travel times for each individual trip of an OD survey database. Canadian postal codes provide accurate locations within street blocks for each trip beginning and end point. Using TransCAD GIS software, the procedure finds...

This paper describes research that aims to improve our knowledge about bicycle use and travel strategies and identify the factors which influence this use, including urban form and road design. In addition we shall attempt to identify the position of bicycle use in personal travel practices. For this purpose bicycle users were asked to keep activit...

Forecasting the enduring and wider implications of emerging travel demand management and automobile reduction policies has proved to be a challenging task. Travel behavior researchers point to the need for more in-depth research into the underlying activity-travel scheduling processes as a means to improve the ability to do so. The objective of thi...

This paper describes research that aims to improve our knowledge about bicycle use and travel strategies and identify the factors which influence this use, including urban form and road design. In addition we shall attempt to identify the position of bicycle use in personal travel practices. For this purpose bicycle users were asked to keep activit...

Some studies suggest that the benefits of antilock brake systems (ABS) may be offset through behavioral adaptation, such as driving faster or following closer. Whether preconditions for behavioral adaptation exist was examined by investigating driver knowledge and beliefs about ABS. Telephone interviews were conducted throughout Quebec early in 199...

Five papers that were presented as part of the December 1995 Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier in Lyon, France are enclosed. The primary objective of the colloquium was to review the state of the art of collecting data, on travel behaviour as well as on the mechanisms by which behaviour are changed, in order to better respond to rapidly evolving...

Les deux premières sessions visent à faire le point sur les tendances d'usage de la voiture en ville, afin d'apprécier les marges de manœuvre réelles, tant par une réduction de son usage que pour inciter à une mobilité de proximité. Le poids du passé (nature des tissus urbains, politiques de stationnement, etc.) peut-il être rapidement contrecarré...

Les deux sessions présentées dans ce tome 2 mettent l'accent sur l'évolution du rapport à l'automobile. C'est en premier lieu le développement de nouveaux usages en relation avec l'évolution des modes de vie et la prise de conscience des atteintes à l'environnement. Mais ce sont aussi les incitations et les contraintes liées aux moyens d'actions ré...

This review describes the emergence of the central ideas within the activity analysis paradigm and their application to travel forecasting. We posit that three interconnected processes of "ideas applications" form the basis of scientific development. The first is conceptualization and theory building. The second is empirical tests and applications:...

La connaissance des mécanismes des comportements quotidiens de mobilité, et la compréhension de leur fonctionnement à l’aide d’instruments de modélisation ou de simulation, est à la base de la formulation de politiques de transport plus efficaces. Cette question se pose avec encore plus d’acuité aujourd’hui, alors que la plupart des agglomérations...

Crash rates based on drivers, driver-kilometres, and driver-days in the denominator were compared, using survey estimates of time and distance driven and the annual frequency of traffic crashes in Ontario. Rates by age, sex, and region were computed for all crashes and for crashes resulting in injury or fatality. Young male drivers remained at high...

A survey of drivers carried out in Ontario in 1988 has provided data on time spent driving as well as the distances driven for licensed drivers of both sexes in six age groups and three regions. Substantial differences were found in times, distances, and distance/time ratios among these groups. Men drove 50% greater distances, but spent only 30% mo...

Face à la crise du financement des transports urbains et aux encombrements croissants dans les grandes agglomérations, l’application à plus grande échelle de péages en milieu urbain (péages d’accès ou tarifications de zone) serait-elle une solution ? A travers les communications présentées lors du colloque « La régulation des déplacements urbains p...