PLANNING TECHNIQUES TO ESTIMATE SPEEDS AND SERVICE VOLUMES FOR PLANNING APPLICATIONS

This report recommends methods for transportation planners to estimate speeds and service volumes. Methods are presented for long-range transportation planning and other planning applications such as traffic impact analyses and major investment studies. For this research, planning agencies were surveyed to determine their needs and capabilities, existing methods of estimating speeds and service volumes were reviewed, and improved methods were developed. Recommendations are presented for long-range transportation planning and sketch planning (for which very little data are available and computational efficiency is very important) and for other types of planning studies.

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• Authors:
  • Dowling, R
  • Kittelson, W
  • Zegeer, J
  • Skabardonis, A
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 151 p.
• Serial:
  • NCHRP Report
  • Issue Number: 387
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0077-5614

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Estimating; Level of service; Long range planning; Methodology; Planning; Recommendations; Sketch planning; Surveys; Traffic speed; Traffic volume; Transportation planning
• Old TRIS Terms: Sketch planning techniques
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00739002
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309060583
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project 3-55(2) FY '95
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 29 1997 12:00AM