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SANCHEZ-FLORES, Óscar  e  DE PALMA, André. Guidelines on the approaches and methods used in transportation science. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.43, pp.751-778. ISSN 2448-6183.

This paper provides a critical analysis about the currently methodologies and modeling approaches used in transportation science. The inconsistency between practice, modeling techniques and recent theoretical development in other disciplines, are pointed out in this contribution. Four key axes of analysis are proposed: modeling individual behavior from social psychology and micro-psychology approach, modeling individual behavior from neoclassical microeconomic approach, the limitations of deterministic formulation in transportation problems vis-à-vis from stochastic formulation for which we bet on and the static and dynamic formulation, in order to show that last one is more suitable for transportation problems analysis.

Palavras-chave : methods; modeling; transportation systems.