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The 413 million Europeans generate roughly a billion trips a day. In doing so, they consume vast amounts of time, energy and money, produce tons of air pollution and a myriad of safety hazards. Nevertheless, as individuals and as societies, they are willing to do that, in order to get to work, shopping or leisure activities, and to support the productive and consumptive life-styles they lead.
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Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (1993). Introduction: Can a Billion Trips be Reduced to a Few Patterns?. In: Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (eds) A Billion Trips a Day. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8118-9_1
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