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1. ISEG: Migration and Travel Behaviour - Methodology and Research Issues | Prof. Dr. Manfred M. Fischer

1. ISEG: Migration and Travel Behaviour - Methodology and Research Issues | Prof. Dr. Manfred M. Fischer

Prof. Dr. Manfred M. Fischer,  Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austrian Academy of Science.

Programm und Ablauf des Seminars

26. - 30.01.1998

  • Introduction: behavioural research in human geography
  • Psychological background: perception and attitudes
  • Spatial cognition and cognitive maps
  • Learning and spatial behaviour
  • Activity and action spaces
  • Modelling approaches to human activities
  • Time path analysis
  • Decision making
  • Travel choice behaviour: the discrete choice modelling view point
  • Third generation approaches to understanding travel behaviour
  • Migration in a behavioural context: a general review
  • The residential decision making process at the intra-urban scale
  • Behavioural approaches: alternatives and future