Critical realism and pragmatism in transport demand research

Abstract

This paper investigates and represents key characteristics of recent studies related to research philosophies. Before conducting any research activity, every researcher has to think about his ontological, epistemological and axiological assumptions to know how to distinguish different research philosophies and their methodological choices for data collection process (Burrell and Morgan, 1979; Saunders et al., 2016). To do that, the primary aim of this paper is to represent and advocate combine usage of critical realism and pragmatism research philosophy for  investigation of travel behaviour and travel demand on highways.