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Modellers ‘slow to change’

12 May 2017
 

Transport modellers are too slow to respond to changing trends in travel behaviour, a transport academic has told the Commission on Travel Demand. 

“Professionals invest so much effort in building models that they are reluctant to recognise behavioural changes that are inconsistent with their models,” says David Metz, an honorary professor at the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London. “Indeed, they commonly fail to recognise the significance of new...

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