CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION DEMAND: A HANDBOOK FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS. SECOND EDITION

This second edition of the CUTD handbook presents a comprehensive set of updated and reorganized data on a wide variety of statistics related to urban travel demand characteristics. Nearly all the travel demand data in this second edition postdates 1970, thus most of the older data in the 1978 first edition have been deleted. This handbook is designed to be used by transportation planners and analysts as a source of data to check the validity and reasonableness of local forecasts using either conventional or emerging planning/modeling techniques, or as a cross-check on the similarity of travel statistics from one locality to another. Another use of the handbook would be to examine how key statistics have changed over time and to transfer these changes from one area to another. For those planning to compare the recent information in this handbook to the same types of data in the first edition, a key that matches the tables between the handbooks is presented at the end of the introductory section. In this updated handbook, tables are grouped into 9 sections: A-Socioeconomic Characteristics for Study Area; B-Trip Generation: Person and Vehicle Trips; C-Trip Length and VMT Data; D-Mode Choice and Auto Occupancies; E-Temporal Distribution of Travel; F-CBD Characteristics and Travel Statistics; G-Truck Travel; H-Transit Usage Statistics; and I-Highway and HOV Usage Statistics. Section H presents statistics on the usage characteristics of transit facilities. Annual ridership and productivity statistics are reported for all commuter rail, rapid transit, light rail transit, streetcar systems, and major bus systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Charles River Associates, Incorporated

  200 Clarendon Street, John Hancock Tower
  Boston, MA  United States  02116

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Levinson, H S
• Publication Date: 1986-4

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 107 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Handbooks; Mode choice; Socioeconomic factors; Statistics; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Trip generation; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: Urban Mass Transportation Act
• Uncontrolled Terms: Socioeconomic data
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection; Umta section 6
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00465785
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-IT-06-0049-86-1
• Contract Numbers: DTUM60-84-C-71262
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 29 1988 12:00AM