LIMITED AREA TRAFFIC ANALYSIS

Traditional assignments of traffic to a whole city tend to be coarse and expensive. In many cases, it is desirable to look at a small part of the city and to determine the likely effects of many possible alternatives. Traditional traffic assignments are not appropriate in these cases. Techniques exist to modify the existing methods to provide cheaper, more realistic results by limiting the area analysed. The paper will describe these techniques; the problems encountered in applying them; methods of overcoming these problems and list aspects where research is still needed to improve the results. /TRRL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceeding of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Australian Transport Research Forum--"Getting the Best Use from the Transport Infrastructure" Melbourne, Australia, May 24-25, 1977.
• Corporate Authors:

  VICTORIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT

  MELBOURNE,    
• Authors:
  • Ferguson, D G
• Publication Date: 1977-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 12 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Conferences; Digital computers; Digital simulation; Economic factors; Location; Mathematical models; Methodology; Networks; Roads; Traffic; Traffic assignment; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Road networks; Traffic analysis; Vicinity
• Old TRIS Terms: Economic considerations; Substitutes
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 6483: Digital model; 9102: Method; 1053: Road network; 679: Traffic assignment; 313: Urban area; 393: Vicinity
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00165574
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 14 1978 12:00AM