National and European transport models become increasingly important. The broadening of national transport policy from strategic infrastructure investments to infrastructure management strengthens the need for advanced and more policy sensitive tools of analysis.

1 National Transport Models: Introduction and Comparative Analysis.- I The Model Development Context.- 2 An Overview of European National Models.- 3 Updating and Extending National Models.- 4 National Models: How to Make It Happen. The Case of the Swedish National Model System: SAMPERS.- 5 General Modelling Approaches: Top-down or Bottom-up?.- 6 Deterministic Time Table Transit Assignment.- II National Transport Models.- 7 Application Areas for the Dutch National Model.- 8 The New Swedish National Model — SAMPERS: System and Validation.- 9 SAMPERS — The New Swedish National Travel Demand Forecasting Tool.- 10 Italian Models: Application and Planned Development.- 11 PETRA — An Activity-based Approach to Travel Demand Analysis.- 12 GB Traffic Forecasts — Status and Development.- III European Transport Models.- 13 Designing the STREAMS Model of Europe.- 14 Tests of Nonlinearity, Modal Captivity and Spatial Competition within the STEMM Multicountry Application for Passengers.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Author Index.- Contributors.

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