AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN AREA TRAVEL BY TIME OF DAY

THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS A THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF VEHICULAR TRAVEL IN EIGHT U.S. URBAN AREAS, RANGING IN SIZE FROM 100,000 TO 3,500,000 POPULATION. GRAPHICAL MODELS WERE DEVELOPED DURING THE ANALYSIS AND TRAVEL DATA IN AN EXAMPLE URBAN AREA, THAT OF ST. LOUIS, IS PRESENTED IN DETAIL ALONG WITH TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL OUTPUTS OF DATA FOR EACH OF THE OTHER CITIES. PROGRAMS WERE DEVELOPED WHICH SUMMATED THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS IN MOTION, AND THE TOTAL VEHICLE MILES OF TRAVEL OCCURING EVERY TENTH OF AN HOUR FOR A 24-HOUR PERIOD. IN PHASE A, FIVE SUBMODELS WERE USED TO AGGREGATE HOURLY TRAVEL INTO SIMILAR TIME GROUPS, I.E., WEE HOURS, MORNING, MID-DAY, AFTERNOON, EVENING. IN PHASE B, AREA-WIDE TRAFFIC COUNT DATA WERE USED TO DETERMINE TOTAL VEHICLE MILES OF TRAVEL OCCURRING ON VARIOUS CLASSES OF HIGHWAY, AND AT VARYING DISTANCES AND ORIENTATIONS FROM THE CENTRAL CORE CITY, ON DIRECTIONAL AND NON-DIRECTIONAL BASES. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 14 APP
• Corporate Authors:

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • TITTEMORE, L H
  • Birdsall, M R
  • Hill, D M
  • Hammond, R H
• Publication Date: 1972-1

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 294 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Mathematical models; Time; Traffic counting; Urban areas; Vehicle miles of travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Occupancy
• Old TRIS Terms: Time factor
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00228374
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rept
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 24 1973 12:00AM