URBAN SPATIAL TRAFFIC PATTERNS
A style of urban traffic modeling called "continuous" is described, which assumes that differences between adjacent areas within a city are relatively small, compared with the variation over the entire urban area, and hence the characterstics of the city can be represented by smooth mathematical functions. In the 6 chapters of this book, the traditional transportation planning problem is investigated at the strategic and travel distribution level. The second chapter attempts to find a suitable mathematical description of the way in which homes and workplaces are separately and jointly distributed over the urban area. The ways in which a trip can be executed between two given points in a city are examined in the third chapter. In chapter 4, an urban travel distribution model is constructed. Chapter 5 considers the city as a whole and notes two factors that influence the way in which traffic functions within a city: commuter must traverse the distance between the home and workplace; commuter routes cross. This chapter concentrates on the method of calculation of these measures. The practical consequences of the "best" available travel models which describe the distribution of traffic over an urban area are examined in chapter 6.
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Corporate Authors:
Pion Limited
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Authors:
- VAUGHAN, R
- Publication Date: 1987
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: n.p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Commuting; Traffic distribution; Traffic simulation; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00468763
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0 85086 122 5
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: May 31 1988 12:00AM