This paper experiments a data fusion methodology for enhancing the understanding of thernimpacts of urban form on travel behaviour. As a contribution to the measurement of such implications, wernpropose some findings from an empirical study of the interactions between settlement dynamics and travelrnbehaviours in the Greater Montreal Area. For this purpose, data from the last three Origin-DestinationrnSurveys (1987, 1993 and 1998) are coherently merged to dwellings and socio-demographics data fromrnthe last three Canadian Censuses (1986, 1991 and 1996). Every spatially located household is associatedrnto an enumeration area, allowing the introduction of census attributes such as dwelling type orrnconstruction period in the travel behaviour study. Therewith, it is possible to measure the travel behaviourrndynamics of households and individuals residing in particular dwellings. Contextual evolution (in the lastrn10 years) as well as settlement waves evolution (since 1945) of travel behaviours can be observed.
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