THE ROLE OF TRAFFIC IN OPERATIONAL URBAN MODELS: DUTCH EXPERIENCE

DE ROL VAN HET VERKEER IN OPERATIONELE STEDELIJKE MODELLEN

In the past fifteen years a great many experiences have been obtained in the Netherlands in constructing and applying urban models. Most of these models were developed as an operational tool in urban policy-making. A subset of these models was constructed with the explicit intention of getting more insight into urban traffic, while at least in most other models traffic and transportation play a prominent role. One background of this increasing interest in urban models is formed by the need for getting quantitative and coherent information on various urban problems that came increasingly to the fore in this period (the demand side), and by the progress made in developing analytical tools for analysing these intriguing problems (the supply side). At present, the boom in designing urban models seems to be over and, therefore, it is an appropriate time period to evaluate critically the results reached so far and the experiences obtained. In the light of this background, the present paper provides a description of the changes that have appeared in methods and techniques used in traffic demand analysis and a general framework is sketched, in which all the urban models developed so far in the Netherlands can be placed, with a special view on urban traffic analysis. This is demonstrated by means of a short survey of the most well-known and applied models that were developed in the past fifteen years. The paper concludes with a brief evaluation on the usefulness of urban travel modelling in the Netherlands. (Author/TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Netherlands Institute of Transport

  Polakweg 13
  2288 GG Rijswijk,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Rouwendal, J
  • Nijkamp, P
• Publication Date: 1985

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 25-36
• Serial:
  • TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR VERVOERSWETENSCHAP
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Demand; Mathematical models; Methodology; Modal split; Policy; State of the art studies; Traffic; Traffic simulation; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Urban areas; Urban development; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 285: Demand (econ); 6473: Mathematical model; 9102: Method; 675: Modal split; 8078: Netherlands; 173: Policy; 755: Traffic; 313: Urban area; 374: Urban development
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00451917
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1986 12:00AM