PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A MACRO URBAN TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL
The U.S. Department of Transportation spends billions of dollars annually in aid for the construction, maintenance, and operation of transportation systems throughout the country. In order to assist resource allocation decision making the Department is developing procedures to study the effects of alternative transportation policies and programs. The TRANS model system is one component of this effort and is designed to forecast these effects in urbanized areas. However, there is dissatisfaction with some aspects of the demand predictions of the TRANS model. The primary purpose of the current study is to develop an aggregate travel demand model for urbanized areas to be used on an interim basis in conjunction with the TRANS model system until theoretical and empirical research can be undertaken to validate or modify the model proposed in this study.
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Corporate Authors:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Transportation Systems Division
Cambridge, MA United States 02139Department of Transportation
Office of Systems Analysis and Information, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Koppelman, F S
- Publication Date: 1972-12
Media Info
- Pagination: 139 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Decision making; Forecasting; Mathematical models; Passengers; Policy making; Research; Resource allocation; Transportation; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Urban areas; Urban transportation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Old TRIS Terms: National transportation policies
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00146504
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-P-5010.1
- Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-10058
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM