ESTIMATION AND EVALUATION OF DIVERTED AND GENERATED (INDUCED) TRAFFIC
TRAVEL BEHAVIOR IS PRESENTED AS ESSENTIALLY BOTH A TEMPORAL AND A SPATIAL PHENOMENON. RELIANCE ON PURELY CROSS- SECTIONAL DATA IS CRITICIZED, SUCH AS THE STANDARD ORIGIN- AND-DESTINATION SURVEYS, WHICH MAY HAVE POORLY DEFINED SPATIAL AGGREGATION, AND CAN ONLY ACT TO SUPPRESS RATHER THAN TO CLARIFY FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS. IT IS PROPOSED THAT VALID SHORT- AND LONG-RUN INFORMATION IS NEEDED TO TREAT THE INDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROBLEMS. THIS INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM A CONTINUING PANEL SURVEY OF A SAMPLE SELECTED WITHOUT REGARD TO THE OCCURRENCE OF A PARTICULAR EXPERIMENT. THIS CONTINUING SURVEY MAY BE CONDUCTED THROUGH PERIODIC USE OF A SELF-ADMINISTERED TRAVEL DIARY TO STUDY HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL BEHAVIOR. COSTS ARE ESTIMATED TO CONDUCT A CONTINUING SURVEY IN A SUBURBAN COMMUNITY. THE MOST EFFICIENT SINGLE ESTIMATE OF AVERAGE DAILY TRIP MAKING, ALLOWING FOR DATA COLLECTION COSTS, APPEARS TO BE THE ACQUISITION OF CONSECUTIVE, THREE-DAY, WEEKDAY SAMPLES. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT SUCH A STUDY SHOULD PROVIDE A MORE EFFICIENT MEASURE OF INDIVIDUAL FAMILY TRAVEL THAT MAY BE IDENTIFIED WITH THE PATTERN AND INTENSITY OF AGGREGATE DAILY TRAVEL WITH RESPECT TO BOTH TIME AND LOCATION.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Summary of PROGRESS TO JUNE 30, 1967, PROJECT 2-8, PP 60-61
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Corporate Authors:
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001 - Publication Date: 1967
Language
- English
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Serial:
- NCHRP Report
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0077-5614
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Average daily traffic; Costs; Data collection; Families; Households; Origin and destination; Suburbs; Traffic surveys; Travel patterns; Trip generation
- Old TRIS Terms: Continuing basis
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00227825
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Aug 15 2004 1:45AM