Dramatic improvements in information and communication technologies (ICTs) are seemingly daily occurrences in today's society. The Internet, mobile phones and other wireless communications services, and broadband residential access are just a sample of such advances that people are beginning to take for granted. These new or improved products and services are changing the way many people work, shop, play, and live. It is important that we, as a society, understand these changes and their implications, and it is this desire that motivates our research.

The Telecommunications and Travel Behavior Research Program is being undertaken under the aegis of the Institute of Transportation Studies, an autonomous, interdisciplinary research institute affiliated with the University of California at Davis.