DESTINATION SELECTION. AN AID TO SUB-REGIONAL LAND-USE/TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

The author states that the impact of alternative land-use/transportation policies on communities in the rural sub-region may be gauged through the effect on their trip distributions. This paper proposes a method which will enable the study of these distributions through the application of the gravity model at the sub-regional scale without recourse to zoning systems generally used. This is achieved through the use of an algorithm which selects a limited number of potential destinations for an individual community. The gravity model component then distributes the trips between these destinations. The paper concentrates on the shopping activity because: (1) the activity can take place at different scales in both the smallest village and the metropolitan centre, so a large number of allocation options can be tested; (2) shopping is a necessary and reasonably frequent activity for most households and is obviously constrained by the presence of shops; (3) it is an activity which can be controlled, at various scales of operation, by the local authority. A brief description of the gravity model component is given together with some of its shortcomings. There is an introduction to the 'destination selection algorithm' and a discussion of the implications of its use. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Jackson, M R
• Publication Date: 1977-7-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 368-370
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 7/8
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Distributions (Statistics); Gravity models; Land use; Land use planning; Origin and destination; Plasticity; Regional planning; Rural areas; Shopping; Shopping centers; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel; Trip distribution
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selecting; Selection; Trip
• Old TRIS Terms: Destruction; Plastic theory
• ITRD Terms: 6572: Distribution (stat); 690: Gravity model; 698: Journey; 356: Land use; 687: Origin destination traffic; 359: Regional planning; 9072: Selection; 320: Shopping centre
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172530
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1978 12:00AM