eBook | Pnina O. Plaut and Dalit Shach-Pinsly
Routledge: London | 2019 (English)

Abstract

This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments.

Over the past decade, rapid development of ICT has led to extensive social impacts and influence on travel and mobility patterns within urban spaces. A new field of research of digital social networks and travel behaviour is now emerging. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge, cutting-edge research and integrated analysis methods from the fields of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It explores the challenges related to the question of how we can synchronize among social networks activities, transport means, intelligent communication/information technologies and the urban form.

This innovative book encourages multidisciplinary insights and fusion among three disciplines of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It offers new horizons for research and will be of interest to students and scholars studying mobilities, transport studies, urban geography, urban planning, the built environment and urban policy.

eBook | Plaut Pnina, Smadar Amir and Dalit Shach-Pinsly
COST Action TU1305 | 2018 (English)

Abstract

In this book we share the knowledge produced, gathered, presented and discussed in COST Action TU1305 “Social Networks and Travel Behaviour”. It includes state-of-the-art presentations on the various topics discussed, summaries from our training school, workshops and annual Young Researchers’ Session as well as new research ideas developed through short term scientific missions (STSMs). Throughout the work we developed a conceptual framework for new ideas and methodologies and broaden the theoretical and practical framework of the field, taking into account both urban structure and jointly performed social activities.

eBook | Moran, M. and Plaut, P.
The Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion, Haifa | 2013 (Hebrew)

Abstract

Towards the end of the 20th century, the promotion of an active lifestyle was defined as a national goal in many countries, following the increasing burden of chronic morbidity and the recognition of the health damages of sedentary behavior.
“Active Living by Design” is an interdisciplinary approach that calls for creating environments that encourage walking and cycling for mobility and leisure through compact urban planning that includes: land use mix, street connectivity, residential density, and integration of public open spaces into the urban structure.
The book presents research findings that examined the relationship between the built environment and an active lifestyle of children and adults in Israel, combining theoretical and methodological approaches from the fields of urban planning and public health.