THE "INTERVENING OPPORTUNITIES" METHOD OF TRAFFIC ANALYSIS

The mathematical analysis of traffic is rapidly becoming a highly specialized activity. During the last two decades, traffic planning has become a fruitful field for analysis and has progressed rapidly from dependence on simple origin destination surveys to complex, all embracing mathematical model building. The article reviews briefly some of the early forerunners of the more refined techniques which began emerging during the 1950s. The focus of the article is what has become known as the method of "intervening opportunities". The fundamental meaning of this hypothesis, in short is that the distance does not have its expected effects, and the slopes of the opportunity curves provide the controlling influence.

• Record URL:
  https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021323202?urlappend=%3Bseq=139
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• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

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  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Authors:
  • Clark, C
  • Peters, C H
• Publication Date: 1965-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 101-119
• Serial:
  • Traffic Quarterly
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0041-0713

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Opportunity models; Origin and destination; Traffic flow; Transportation planning; Travel time; Trip length
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921331
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 12 2002 12:00AM