Impacts of Information Technology on Personal Travel and Commercial Vehicle Operations: Research Challenges and Opportunities

Thomas F. Golob and A C Regan

University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center

Abstract: Travel, like many other aspects of daily life, is being transformed by the information technology revolution. Accessibility can no longer be measured only in terms of travel time, distance or generalized travel cost. Information technology gives people virtual accessibility to a rapidly growing range of activities. E-commerce has become a catalyst for structural changes in the freight transportation industry and is changing where freight moves, the size of typical shipments and the time within which goods must be delivered. In this paper we explore some of the potential effects of information technology on transportation, both personal and freight.

Keywords: Travel demand forecasting; Information technology; Telecommunications; Internet; Telematics; E-commerce; Activity analysis; Freight transportation; Commercial vehicle operations; Social and Behavioral Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-08-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0zh556db.pdf;origin=repeccitec (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt0zh556db

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lisa Schiff ().