The impact of virtual mobility on travel behaviour: An overview

The access to and use of the Internet has increased enormously over the last years, hence providing more and more people virtual access to goods, people, services and opportunities. People perform a lot of activities in this virtual world, thus creating virtual mobility. Transport planners studied the impact of Internet use on travel behaviour for at least the same time. Most of these researches focus on commuter and shopping trips. This paper describes an overview of research results in order to get a clear view on the relation between Internet use and travel behaviour, and on the possibilities of the Internet to change travel behaviour.