USE OF THE GRAVITY MODEL FOR PEDESTRIAN TRAVEL DISTRIBUTION
Knowledge of pedestrian travel behavior is very important to attempts to improve congestion problems in central business districts. This paper describes the results of the use of a traditional gravity model for predicting pedestrian trip distribution. The model is calibrated by using a data set from downtown Chicago. The results indicate that the traditional gravity model closely reproduces the characteristics of pedestrian trip distribution and might be a useful tool in the analysis of downtown travel. (Author)
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Authors:
- Rutherford, G Scott
- Publication Date: 1979
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 53-59
- Monograph Title: Passenger travel forecasting
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 728
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Central business districts; Forecasting; Gravity models; Pedestrians; Transportation planning; Travel patterns; Trip distribution; Urban transportation
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00310703
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309029813
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM