Workshops B | ISCTSC2025

Workshops Stream B

Workshop B1: “Data-Driven Approaches for User-Centric Transportation Planning and Policy”

Workshop Co-Chairs: Gregory Newmark & Kai Liu

Workshop Short Description:

This workshop brings together cutting-edge research and innovative methodologies in transportation planning, data fusion, and user-centred mobility solutions. The presented papers explore a wide range of topics, from the integration of household travel surveys and external data for assessing the impacts of fare-free public transport during the pandemic to the use of on-demand ridepooling data for more user-centric transport planning. Participants will delve into the challenges of collecting real-world data during global crises, the investigation of ride-pooling usage through mixed methods, and the implications of urban air mobility (UAM) on future transportation systems. Additionally, the workshop will address the predictability of personal travel and its impact on urban rail transit demand forecasting, as well as the comparison of activity location patterns between railway users and non-users using GPS trajectory data. Discussions will also cover the reliability of public transportation systems with autonomous first-/last-mile services, the standardisation of transit survey data, and the preferences of solo drivers for microtransit versus bus services in suburban settings. This workshop aims to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange among researchers and practitioners to advance the field of transportation planning and policy.

Workshop Papers

6; Niklas Höing, Conny Louen and Tobias Kuhnimhof; "Fusing household travel surveys and external data for impact assessment under complex surrounding conditions: the case of introducing fare free public transport during the pandemic"
14; Peter Bruder, Robin Kersten and Jeanette Klemmer; "Focusing on passenger needs - How can on- demand-ridepooling data make transport planning more user-centered?"
26; Natalie Schneider, Annika Lux, Johanna Koch, Anna Helfers and Carsten Sommer; "The challenges of collecting data through real-world experiment in the context of a worldwide crisis"
63; Nadine Kostorz-Weiss, Martin Kagerbauer and Peter Vortisch; "Investigating ride-pooling use through a mixed methods approach" (Lectern presentation)
104; James Giller, Xiatian Iogansen, Giovanni Circella, Mischa Young and Yongsung Lee; "A Stratified Random Sample Survey of Ridehailing Drivers’ Perspectives on Vehicle Electrification"
107; Jing Wang, Kai Liu, Jian Zhao and Jiangbo Wang; "Personal Travel Predictability and Its Implications on Urban Rail Transit Demand Forecasting"
110; Gen Hayauchi, Ryo Kanamori, Takayuki Morikawa and Suzuka Iwamoto; "A comparison of activity location patterns between railway users and non-users with GPS trajectory data" (Lectern presentation)
119; Christian Klinkhardt, Kim Kandler, Martin Kagerbauer and Peter Vortisch; "Reliability of Public Transportation Systems with Autonomous First-/Last-Mile Services in a Stated Mode Choice Experiment" (Lectern presentation)
132; Gregory Newmark and Joseph Fish;"Standardizing Transit Survey Data"
138; Xiaoyu Zhang, Owen Waygood and Zachary Patterson; "Solo driver preferences for mutually exclusive first-mile microtransit versus bus services"

Workshop B5: “Innovations in freight and establishment data collection”

Workshop Co-Chairs: Matthew Roorda & Oliver Roider

Workshop Short Description:

Freight transport decisions and the location choices of establishments play an important role in the transition process towards a more environmentally friendly transport sector. In this workshop, innovative survey methods for the collection of data on freight transport (considering different modes of transport) and the location choice of establishments in light of new technologies will be examined. Both should ultimately form the basis for mapping decision-making processes for the further development of transport models that provide decision-makers with evidence of the effects of planned transport infrastructure, land-use and policy development. The objective of the workshop is to determine the data required for this and to identify deficits in the available databases and statistics.
This workshop will discuss innovative approaches to collect data from establishments, a complex endeavour confronted with the currently very well-known low response rates. The workshop will focus on the following topics: (1) What are the current approaches to collect establishment and freight transport data? (2) What data can be derived from surveys, and what additional data are needed? (3) Which survey methods and which survey designs are promising to increase the response rate? How can relevant decision-makers in establishments be identified? (4) Which additional data sources can be used to augment survey data?
The workshop will develop recommendations for improving data collection methods in the area of freight transport and the strategic decisions of companies.

Workshop Papers:

37; Usman Ahmed, Tho Le and Matthew Roorda; "A Commercial Travel Survey for the Greater Toronto Area" (Lectern Presentation)
67; Rui Colaço, Anthony Macedo, Patrícia C. Melo and João de Abreu E Silva; "An Analysis of Office Firms' Location Search Processes in the face of Rising Telework Adoption" (Lectern Presentation)
105; Marcel Porschen, Marcus Klatte and Tobias Kuhnimhof; "Exploring the European Road Freight Transport Survey: Potentials, Challenges, and Limitations" (Lectern Presentation)
120; Oliver Roider, Reinhard Hössinger, Stefan Schrempp and Gerard de Jong; "Commodity Survey in Austria for the new Austrian Freight Transport Model" (Lectern Presentation)

Workshop B6: “Accommodating behavioural trends and the new normal in travel surveys”

Workshop Co-Chairs: Juliane Stark & Martin Kagerbauer

Workshop Short Description:

The evolving landscape of travel behaviour, shaped by teleworking, e-commerce, and digital engagement, necessitates a reassessment of travel survey methodologies. This workshop explores innovative survey tools and approaches to capture the complexities of modern travel behaviour, reflecting new residential preferences, virtual activity integration, and emerging mobility trends. The objective of the workshop is to identify emerging survey techniques, technologies, and data treatments that enhance the understanding of evolving travel behaviours. The discussion will focus on novel methods for capturing transport-related challenges, integrating virtual activities into survey frameworks, and measuring behavioural shifts in response to societal transformations. Key themes include the implications of teleworking on commuting patterns and trips with other purposes, the influence of e-commerce on shopping behaviour, and the role of digital engagement in shaping mobility decisions. Additionally, the workshop will examine challenges in capturing transport disadvantages across diverse population segments and explore ways to enhance survey instruments for better inclusivity and accuracy. The effectiveness of new methodologies compared to traditional survey techniques will also be assessed. Discussions will synthesise benefits and challenges in deployment and analysis, aiming to refine data collection strategies and improve predictive capabilities for transportation planning. This workshop will facilitate discussions on refining survey methodologies to better capture the "new normal" in travel behaviour, ensuring that future transportation planning remains responsive to societal transformations.
The workshop is divided into three sessions. Session 1 includes three presentations on the effects of working from home, location choice, and other changes in travel behaviour and the impact for travel survey designs. Based on inputs from all related papers in the workshop, session 2 will focus on the discussion of the relevance of these topics and trends for travel surveys. The workshop session will also harness the collective experience of the participants to identify potential areas of relevance and added value. In session 3, we will discuss and synthesise solutions in the background of travel surveys for the identified challenges and blind spots as a follow-up of the first two workshop sessions.

Workshop Papers:

44; Ahsan Habib and Atkia Ibnat; "Enhancing Travel Survey to Accommodate Activities in Virtual and Physical Space"
45; Ilana Har-Tal and Karel Martens; "Measuring travel problems: towards a more robust measurement tool"
68; Rui Colaco and João de Abreu E Silva; "Exploring the Interplay Between Telework, E-Shopping and Residential Preferences: A Mixed-Methods Analysis" (Lectern Presentation)
76; Viktoriya Kolarova, Ilka Dubernet, Simon Hein, Johannes Nießen and Tobias Kuhnimhof; "Assessing residential location and commuting preferences" (Lectern Presentation)
103; Motahare Mohammadi and Abolfazl Mohammadian; "Activity-Travel Behavior in New Normal: Insights From A Longitudinal Study" (Lectern Presentation)

Workshop B4: “Emerging Passive Data Collection Technologies”

Workshop Co-Chairs: Caroline Bayart & Toshiyuki Yamamoto

Workshop Short Description:

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have made detailed behavioural information available for analysis, such as trip chains and trajectories. Many data of gigantic size are passively collected and useful for travel behaviour analysis and transportation planning. Mobile phone data, floating car data, and smart card data are typical data types, but social media data and apps data with/without geotags such as Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Lyft, and CCTV camera data are also utilised.
This workshop presents studies on applications of such passive data in estimating various aspects of travel behaviour and transportation planning, including the number of trips, trip purpose, mode of travel, origin-destination matrix, traffic volume at links, road condition, and pedestrian safety. The comparison of such passive data with traditional data is also presented, and the usefulness of the passive data will be discussed. Since the size of passive data is big, efficient cleansing of noisy data and treatment of anomalies are required. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques for that purpose are also discussed to better utilise the available passive data.

Workshop Papers:

46; Michael Cik and Martin Fellendorf; "Mobile Phone Data to supplement Travel Demand Models" (Lectern Presentation)
47; Maria Tebar, Christelle Marchesse and Barbara Christian; "FMD (Floating Mobile Data) vs. more traditional data: what are the differences and complementarities?"
82; You Jin Tan, Malcolm Soh, Shu Hui Lim, Duc Tho Tran and Manh Thinh Chu; "Transport Data Accuracy: Sharpening with Intelligence"
89; Kazunori Ban, Kohichi Yoshioka, Eisuke Kobayashi, Tomio Miwa and Toshiyuki Yamamoto; "Integration of CCTV surveillance cameras and vehicle trajectory data by ETC2.0 for analysing visitors behavior at a roadside station" (Lectern Presentation)
102; Clemence de Rolland, Caroline Bayart and Patrick Bonnel; "Deriving Origin-Destination matrices from Aggregated Mobile Phone Data : a new insight on people’s mobility" (Lectern Presentation)
130; Thomas Klemmer and Pahirangan Sivapatham; "Utilisation of sensor-enriched floating car data for the condition assessment of gravel roads in Subsahara Africa"

Workshop B3: “Rethinking fundamentals of travel surveys”

Workshop Co-Chairs: Kelly Clifton & Hamzeh Alizadeh

Workshop Short Description:

As travel behaviour responds to societal, technological, and environmental changes, travel surveys must also adapt in order to ensure that they remain a vital tool for understanding and planning for the future of mobility. Building on the findings from workshop presentations and associated papers, the session will take a critical examination of how travel data have been conceptualised and collected, review recent innovations in survey design and quality, and the implications for research and practice. For example, the evolution of social norms, modelling capabilities, and policy considerations provide ample reasons to reconsider some basic elements of travel surveys, such as definitions of gender, households, and trips. At the same time, methods of collecting travel information have improved participation, quality, volume, and types of data through the use of technology, comprehensive survey designs, longitudinal approaches, and fusion with other data sources. Embracing a forward-looking perspective, workshop participants will discuss strategies for evolving surveys and other data collection techniques to capitalise on these opportunities to rethink the fundamentals of travel surveys.

Workshop Papers:

18; Roel Faber, Mathijs de Haas and Marije Hamersma; "Lessons learned from 10 years Netherlands Mobility Panel" (Lectern Presentation)
19; Chris Harding, Mathilde Moliner, Thomas Audrin and Hamzeh Alizadeh; "Transforming Montreal’s Household Travel Survey: Innovations to Address Declining Response Rates, Enhance Data Quality, and Improve Data Dissemination"
35; Johanna Koch and Carsten Sommer; "How gender-sensitive are our data collections? An analysis of German transport survey methods" (Lectern Presentation)
55; Ellen Flaata and Trude Tørset; "The trip definition problem" (Lectern Presentation)
58; Anton Galich, Ilka Dubernet and Denise Obersteller; "Mobility in Germany (MiD) 2023 – Covering diverse aspects of passenger mobility"
75; Ahsan Habib and Maisha Ghani; "Urban Rural Divide: Lessons Learnt from Household Based Travel Survey, Nova Scotia"
109; Rico Wittwer, Stefan Hubrich and Regine Gerike; "Enhancing Survey Methodology and Analysis of Large-Scale German Household Travel Surveys: The Impact of Data Harmonization, Fusion, Hierarchical Structures, and Weighting"
153; Geneviève Bastien, Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais, Yannick Brosseau, Samuel Duhaime-Morissette and Catherine Morency; "Evolution: An Open-Source Platform for Comprehensive Travel Survey Methodologies and Mobility Research"
156; Kelly Clifton; "What is a household and why do we care?"
161; Marcel Porschen and Tobias Kuhnimhof; "The State of National Travel Surveys: Design Characteristics, Impact of the Pandemic and the Move to New Technologies" (Lectern Presentation)

Workshop B2: “Catching Travel Behavior at the Right Time:
When and How to Collect Non-Routine Travel Patterns in Cross-sectional, and Longitudinal Data Collections”

Workshop Co-Chairs: Eva Heinen & Jeff LaMondia

Workshop Short Description:

While much work has been done to develop standard techniques to collect routine daily travel data (e.g. commuting mode choice), we still lack consistent guidance on best practices for collecting non-routine travel data or repeated data (i.e. panel/cohort data). We all know that there is intrapersonal (i.e. within an individual) as well as interpersonal (i.e. between individuals) variability of travel behaviours, but we assume that these balance out in the sample. However, especially when we want to measure (behavioural) change between measurement, or less common behaviour, the impact of this intrapersonal variability is less understood, nonetheless essential to have valid measures.
This workshop will focus on understanding when and how to collect data for non-routine travel patterns. These types of data can include panels that move home locations, long-distance trips, or even unique changes to daily travel that could have important planning implications. We will discuss the timeframe(s) that data need to be collected both on the question level as well as the timing of the potential repeated contact. We will also consider the best time to re-contact the participant. We will specifically focus on balancing costs, frequency of communication, timing of contact, allowed time to establish new behaviours, additional sources of data, attrition, and communication of these behaviours.

Workshop papers:

21; Mitchell Fisher, Stacey Bricka and Tim Reuscher; "Evaluating Sociodemographic Groups Based on the Incidence of Long-Distance Travel: Findings from the 2022 US National Household Travel Survey" (Lectern Presentation)
28; Maria Tebar, Fabrice Hasiak and Joel Meissonnier; "Hybridisation of survey methods for understanding senior citizens' mobility in the European Metropolis of Lille (MEL)"
56; Tanja Scheffler, Christian Klöckner and Eva Heinen; "A Nested Personalized Intervention for Household Emission Reduction within a Theory Driven Panel Study on Movers" (Lectern Presentation)
61; Maike Puhe, Jens Schippl and Torsten Fleischer; "Understanding everyday life configurations of citizens to assess their willingness to change established mobility patterns – a social network analysis"
99; Tareq Alsaleh, Isaac Otchere, Bilal Farooq, Zachary Patterson and Elisabetta Cherchi; "Do Perceptions Migrate with Us? An Investigation Using Auto-Generated Travel Scenarios from Semi-Passive Travel Diary Recording" (Lectern Presentation)
127; Nicolas Salbach, Lukas Burger, Miriam Magdolen and Peter Vortisch; "Developing a Self-Assessment Survey as Evaluation Method for Urban Mobility Types" (Lectern Presentation)
142; Jeffrey LaMondia; "Understanding Long-Distance Travel Patterns, Unmet Demand, and Perceived Travel Barriers in Small and Medium-Sized Communities" (Lectern Presentation)
158; Catherine Morency, Hubert Verreault, Samuel Duhaime-Morissette, Howaida Hassan, Ignacio Tiznado Aitken and Steven Farber; "Mobilizing Justice project: Challenges of designing a National Survey on Transport Poverty"