Data Collection Methods and Activity-Travel Behavior Analysis in a Fast Evolving Technological Future

The past 2 years of COVID have disrupted activity-travel patterns in more ways than one. The typical commute-centered every-weekday individual travel pattern is no longer the usual norm, as individuals increasingly work from different work locations (including home, a third work place, and the regular work place) on different workdays. In addition, COVID has accelerated what was already an increasing e-commerce trend before the pandemic, as individuals and households now make continuous and seamless decisions regarding in-person participations versus virtual participations (the latter of which can still have travel repercussions in the form of, for example, a person trip being replaced by a commodity delivery trip).