DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMULATION MODEL FOR REGIONAL RECREATIONAL TRAVEL

A simulation model for recreational travel was developed for use in analyzing the impact of outdoor recreational travel by residents of a 9-state Upper Midwest region to Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Travel data were collected for 6,441 randomly selected households by using a telephone home-interview survey procedure. After the trips were stratified into summer-vacation and summer- weekend categories, cross-classification analysis was used to relate household trip-making frequencies to the socioeconomic characteristics of the household and its accessibility to recreational attractions within the study area. Gravity models then were calibrated to distribute recreational trips within a county-level system of demand and supply zones. Zone trip productions were estimated by applying the cross-classification model to those households within ecah demand zone/ zone trip attractions were established synthetically on the basis of the reported trip ends from the telephone home-interview survey and the distribution of seasonal homes across the region. The gravity-model trip tables then were assigned to a regional highway corridor network for comparison with automatic- traffic-recorder data.

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• Authors:
  • Berg, W D
  • Koushki, P A
  • Krueger, C L
  • Bittner, W L
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 96-106
• Monograph Title: New approaches to travel forecasting
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 569
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Gravity models; Households; Interviewing; Outdoor recreation; Recreation; Regional transportation; Simulation; Socioeconomic factors; Travel patterns
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141294
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030902482X
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 26 1977 12:00AM