Updating Trip Matrices for Copenhagen Using Multiple Data Sources

Traffic planning in the Greater Copenhagen Region (have over the last 10 years mainly been supported by the so-called OTM traffic model. The behavioral models in OTM include advanced state-of-the-art utility-based formulations, which are combined with base-matrices in a pivot-correction procedure. Before and after studies of specific projects have shown, that these matrices might be the Achilles heal of the whole model system. Vuk and Hansen (2006) therefore validated the present version of the OTM traffic model (version 4.0 from summer 2000) and concluded that a major drawback of the model was indeed outdated base 1992 matrices. From January 2005 to March 2007 the OTM model has therefore been in a large-scale process of updating where creation of new trip matrices has been the main focus. The article describes the undertaken methodology for constructing the travel matrices for Copenhagen, and how the improved matrices influence the performance of the model. A main focus in the work has been to utilize various data sources for estimation of the new matrices. This includes telephone survey data, cordon line surveys and existing transport surveys to construct the base matrices, traffic counts to adjust these, and digital network databases. The article also demonstrates a new approach to adjust public transport matrices to counts.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Nielsen, Otto Anker
  • Overgaard, Christian Hansen
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
• Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: State of the art; Traffic models; Transportation planning; Travel surveys; Travel time; Trip length; Trip matrices; Trip tables
• Geographic Terms: Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01099508
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 08-1164
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 21 2008 7:08AM