TRB COMMITTEE ADB10	Traveler Behavior and Values Committee Behavioral Processes: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Subcommittee
Home TRB TRB 2014 Annual Meeting TRB Committee and Panels Online Directory Committee History Committee Membership Subcommittees Time Use and Activity Patterns Route Choice and Spatio-Temporal Behavior International Travel Behavior Behavioral Processes: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Reports Past Activities Cognate Groups and Organizations TRB Committee ADB40 International Association for Travel Behavior Research Travel Model Improvement Program	Subcommittee Goal The goal of this subcommittee is to channel the diffusion of knowledge and promote cooperation amongst a growing body of researchers interested in qualitative and quantitative approaches to understanding, theorizing and modeling the decision processes that underlying observed patterns of human activities and travel behavior and condition future change. Scope This subcommittee focuses on the behavioral processes governing activities and travel of individuals and households, but also firms and goods movement. The committee is open to a variety of methods of inquiry and is supportive of qualitative, quantitative and integrated approaches, particularly given emerging challenges associated with understanding and modeling decision processes over time, space and/or across individuals. Conceptual, empirical, analytical, and exploratory research designs are all encouraged. Example Topic Areas Behavioral change/adaptation processes Search processes, information acquisition, and learning Activity-travel (re)scheduling processes Theories of choice processes; decision rules Routine and habitual behavior and change The evolution of spatial behavior Group decision making Qualitative techniques for examining social-psychological factors (e.g. in-depth interviews, ethnography, focus groups, visual techniques) Interactive/gaming/process-tracing surveys Underlying behavioral assumptions Dealing with uncertainty in decision making Cognitive processes and procedures Constraints/flexibility of behavior that condition travel Gauging reactions to immersive, simulated transportation experiences (e.g. VR reality with person travel service)
	Chair Kouros Mohammadian Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago kouros@uic.edu
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