Introduction: Can a Billion Trips be Reduced to a Few Patterns?

Salomon, Ilan; Bovy, Piet; Orfeuil, Jean-Pierre

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The 413 million Europeans generate roughly a billion trips a day. In doing so, they consume vast amounts of time, energy and money, produce tons of air pollution and a myriad of safety hazards. Nevertheless, as individuals and as societies, they are willing to do that, in order to get to work, shopping or leisure activities, and to support the productive and consumptive life-styles they lead.

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Ilan Salomon
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Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ilan Salomon
Transportation and Traffic Research Department, Ministry of Transport and Public Works, The Netherlands
Piet Bovy
INRETS, France
Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

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Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (1993). Introduction: Can a Billion Trips be Reduced to a Few Patterns?. In: Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (eds) A Billion Trips a Day. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8118-9_1

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