Are models still actual in mobility planning?

Transport Knowledge and Planning Practice

In practice and in academic publications a gap between developed transportation models and the applications of them in daily practice is recognized. Directions for improvement are seen in

1) improving the models so that they are able to encompass real world complexity and are thus more likely to be useful for planners or

2) simplifying the models to represent the crucial interdependencies so that they can be understandable(and thus useful) for planners.

Although both legitimate research directions, we argue that an answer to the implementation problem (e.g. when simplicity and when complexity) can only be found in dialogue between the academic community developing transportation knowledge and practitioners applying it

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