URBAN TRAVEL DEMAND FORECASTING PROJECT, FINAL REPORT SERIES. VOLUME I: OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY

The project has been carried out to provide transportation engineers and planners with information necessary to select and policy-oriented travel demand models which were developed from observations on individual households. Emphasis focused on refining and testing methods for applying models and determining the limits of their validity. Consideration has been given to all aspects of a transportation planning effort from survey and network data collection, through model specifications, calibration and validation, to issues of aggregation and policy forecasting as well as policy applications on region-wide, corridor, and local areas. Each phase has been explored at two levels: specific studies in each aspect of the project, and assessment of the merits and limitations of the methodologies employed with suggested preferable strategies for planning. The project focused on the introduction of rail rapid transit service (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Institute of Transportation Studies Library
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720

  National Science Foundation

  1800 G Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20550
• Authors:
  • McFadden, D L
  • REID, F A
  • Talvitie, A P
  • Johnson, M A
• Publication Date: 1979-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 106 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Forecasting; Mathematical models; Public transit; Rapid transit; Regional planning; Transportation; Transportation corridors; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Rapid transit railways; Strategy
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00312869
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-RR-79-6 Final Rpt., NSF/RA-790256
• Contract Numbers: NSF-GI-43740, NSF-APR74-20392
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 7 1981 12:00AM