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Abstract

One of the emerging objectives in transportation research is to understand the travel decision dynamics of individuals as believed to be influenced by their personal social networks. Several challenges, however, comes within this emerging territory; be it changes in social network formation, social interaction repertoires or the influence of social media and ICT on travel. To that end, my research addresses the need and prospect of analysing and modelling dynamics of social networks in transportation research, puts forward a conceptual scheme, describes the data collection and presents the major findings. Further research to answer the fundamental question of why we need to understand social networks for travel demand forecasting has also been attended to. The motivation is to contextualize and extend our understanding of the interdependencies among life trajectory events, social networks and travel choice decisions.

Speaker

Fariya Sharmeen is an urban planner with specialisations in travel behaviour, social networks and urban regeneration. She is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen and a Research Associate at Imperial College London. Her research interest encompasses the social contexts of urban and transportation planning. She has published in the leading journals of transportation and received accolades for her research. Previously she held positions at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Cities Institute, UK and Utrecht University.

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