The developments in discrete choice formulation, estimation and inference techniques have been fast and furious over the past few years. This special issue of Transportation Research Part B is a compilation of some of the cutting-edge research in the field.

The brain has evolved to enable organisms to survive in a complicated and dynamic world. Its operation is based upon a priori models of the environment which are adapted, during learning, in response to new and changing stimuli. The same qualities that make biological learning mechanisms ideal...