ESTIMATING INDUCED TRAVEL FOR EVALUATION OF METROPOLITAN HIGHWAY EXPANSION

This paper demonstrates how induced travel can be estimated for incorporation into the evaluation process for highway expansion projects, at a sketch planning level of analysis. The approach is useful especially in cases where four-step urban travel models are either unavailable or are unable to forecast the full induced demand effects. The methodology is applied to a hypothetical freeway expansion analysis. The analysis suggests that the magnitude of travel induced by highway expansion increases significantly as a function of initial congestion levels prior to expansion. However, under even extreme scenarios of initial congestion and consequent forecasted induced travel, there is a positive impact with respect to congestion relief.

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  Kluwer Academic Publishers

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• Authors:
  • DeCorla-Souza, P
  • Cohen, H
• Publication Date: 1999-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 249-262
• Serial:
  • Transportation (Netherlands)
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • ISSN: 0049-4488

Subject/Index Terms

• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770817
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 28 1999 12:00AM