This paper investigates the contribution of underlying trends to per-capita car travel development since the 1970s in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA. In these countries, after a long period of growth, car travel began to show signs of stagnation - or even decrease - after the 1990s....

In Germany, a National Travel Survey was conducted in 2002. The paper describes the process needed to make empirical‐based decisions on the main design characteristics of the survey. It outlines the survey operation used in the field during 2002, reports on the relevance of different contact...