TESTS OF TRANSFERABILITY AND VALIDATION OF DISAGGREGATE BEHAVIORAL DEMAND MODELS FOR EVALUATING THE ENERGY CONSERVATION POTENTIAL OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION POLICIES IN NINE US CITIES. FINAL REPORT

A transportation policy analysis methodology described in Guidelines for Travel Demand Analyses of Program Measures to Promote Carpools, Vanpools, and Public Transportation, November, 1976 (EAPA 4:1921) is demonstrated. The results reported build upon the two levels of analysis capabilities (a fully calibrated and operational computer package based on a set of disaggregate travel demand models that were estimated on a random sample of urban travelers and a manual procedure or sketch planning pivot-point version of the above methodology) and have undertaken to accomplish the following objectives: transferability, testing the manual approach on actual applications, and validating the method. The first objective was investigated by examining and comparing disaggregate models that were estimated in 7 US cities by eight different organizations. The next two objectives were investigated using separate case studies: the Washington, DC, Shirley Highway preferential transit and carpool lanes; the Portland, Oregon, Banfield Highway Expressway preferential transit and carpool lanes; the Los Angeles, Santa Monica Freeway preferential Diamond Lane and ramp metering facilities for transit and carpools; the Minneapolis, express bus on metered freeway project; and the Portland, Oregon, carpool matching and promotion programs for the general public and for employer-based groups. Principal findings are summarized and results consolidated.

• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

  100 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 400
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02140

  Department of Energy

  1000 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20585
• Publication Date: 1977-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 40 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Behavior; Buses; Car pooling (Railroads); Carpools; Demand; Disaggregate analysis; Energy; Energy conservation; Evaluation; Express buses; Guidelines; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Human beings; Labor; Public transit; Simulation; Traffic control; Traffic lanes; Transportation; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Urban areas; Urban transportation; Vanpools
• Uncontrolled Terms: Energy analysis; Transportation systems; Work
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California); United States; Washington (District of Columbia)
• Old TRIS Terms: Carpooling; Disaggregate models; Human populations; Reserved lanes
• Subject Areas: Energy; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00312518
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 7 1981 12:00AM