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Predicting levels of nuisance from traffic changes

There has been considerable interest, in recent years, in assessing the environmental effects of traffic. The purpose has been either to predict the impact of now roads and traffic management schemes or to identify those locations in most need of...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: A. M. Mackie

June 15, 1982

Forecasting transport markets

The remainder of this paper is concerned with describing briefly a number of exercises in which research technologies have been utilised in combination to assist in predicting consumer behaviour. Most, but not all are related to investment decisions....

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: David Hollings

June 15, 1982

A combination of hard and soft data to predict family performance

The paper presents the design and experience so far of a project aimed at the development of methods to estimate simultaneously changes in objective resources, the effect of these changes on the individual's or household's subjective perception of...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Authors: Mats Linde, Viveka Linde

Company: Marknads Systematik AB

June 15, 1982

A methodology for analysing changes in travel mobility using panel data

A methodology is presented for analysing panel data for the purpose of measuring changes over time in travel mobility and identifying probable causes for such changes. Mobility is assumed to be a nebulous concept, referring to the general opportunity...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Authors: Thomas Golob, Jan Perdok

June 15, 1982

Modelling consumer choice with cross-sectional data

This paper describes how the response of consumers to change may be predicted using techniques which integrate survey design and implementation with in-depth statistical analysis and modelling. The consumers may be personal consumers, or businesses;...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Authors: Colin Dunn, John Raftery

June 15, 1982

Using social surveys for prediction

This paper illustrates some of the ways in which sample survey data can be used to make predictions about aspects of society. It examines the use of data from continuous surveys to make short term predictions based on time series and the use of...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Frank E. Whitehead

June 15, 1982

The Italian woman in the 1980s

The research, which was carried out in different phases (qualitative/quantitative) and with a sophisticated methodology on a final sample of 3000 women, clearly highlighted the greatest variability of the universe of Italian women. A particularly...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Authors: Arnaldo Aisa, Luisa Pogliana

June 15, 1982

Forecasting long distance travel in the Netherlands

By recourse to our study on Dutch long distance travel we seek to illustrate how social research can be used to assist in the development of mathematical models for the purpose of forecasting transport flows.

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Authors: John Wicks, David Ashley

June 15, 1982

The role of survey research and scenario development

This paper is based on one method of prediction: namely scenarios derived from indirect inference of survey results. Scenarios are a useful perspective within which the complex inter-relationships between the environment, individual business goals,...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Elizabeth H. Nelson

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1982