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Transportation Planning Lecture
Transportation Planning Lecture
sometimes omitted
optional
Data collection
• Demographic/Socioeconomic
• Transportation system
• Travel behavior/propensity/desires
– Surveys
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Travel Demand Modeling
(Forecasting)
• What is travel “demand”?
• Three factors
– Land use
– Socioeconomics and demographics
– Transportation services
(TTYP name 3
characteristics
of these factors
that affect demand)
Trip Generation
• Determine number of “trip ends”
• Methods
– Cross Classification (tables)
– Rates based on activity units (ITE)
– Regression
Trip Distribution
• Determine origin and destination of trips
• Methods
– Gravity model (Need a good shortest path
algorithm)
– Growth factor models
Find the shortest path from node
1 to all other nodes (from Garber and Hoel)
1 1 2 3 3 6 4
2 4 2 1
5 2 6 3 7 2 8
2 3 1 1
9 4 10 3 11 3 12
2 3 1 1
13 4 14 4 15 4 16
Yellow numbers
3 represent link travel times in minutes
FINAL
1 4
1 2 3 4
9
2 6 8
5 6 7 8
4
4 9
7 7
9 10 11 12
1
6 8
0
13 14 15 16
1
0
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