THE INCORPORATION OF WALKING IN TRANSPORT METHODOLOGY

It is argued that data on walk trips should be gathered at the same time, and on the same basis, as data on vehicle trips collected in transportation surveys. This is partly because walking is an important transport mode in its own right, but also because the absence of walk data is a serious source of error in transport models. Accurate forecasts of vehicle trips (especially short distance public transport trips and the distribution of origins and destinations) depend on the interaction of these vehicle trips with walking. (A) (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Oxford

  Transport Studies Unit, 11 Bevington Road
  Oxford,   United Kingdom  OX2 6NB
• Authors:
  • Goodwin, P B
• Publication Date: 1980-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 12 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Errors; Forecasting; Mathematical models; Multimodal transportation; Origin and destination; Surveys; Traffic surveys; Transportation; Travel; Vehicles; Walking
• ITRD Terms: 6440: Error; 132: Forecast; 698: Journey; 6473: Mathematical model; 676: Traffic survey; 1155: Transport; 1255: Vehicle; 758: Walking
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00361436
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: N120/RN Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 30 1982 12:00AM