Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques
Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques

Author:

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0309214009

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 716: Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques provides guidelines on travel demand forecasting procedures and their application for helping to solve common transportation problems.

Metropolitan Travel Forecasting
Metropolitan Travel Forecasting

Author: Transportation Research Board

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0309179521

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

TRB Special Report 288, Metropolitan Travel Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction, examines metropolitan travel forecasting models that provide public officials with information to inform decisions on major transportation system investments and policies. The report explores what improvements may be needed to the models and how federal, state, and local agencies can achieve them. According to the committee that produced the report, travel forecasting models in current use are not adequate for many of today's necessary planning and regulatory uses.

Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand
Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand

Author: Maren Outwater, Colin Smith, Jerry Walters, Brian Welch, Robert Cervero, Kara Kockelman, and J. Richard Kuzmyak

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published:

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0309274419

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, explores the underlying relationships among households, firms, and travel demand. The report also describes a regional scenario planning tool that can be used to evaluate the impacts of various smart growth policies.

Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges and Transit: Conditions and Performance
Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges and Transit: Conditions and Performance

Author: Barry Leonard

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 1437931219

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Conditions and Performance (C&P) report is intended to provide decision makers with an objective appraisal of the physical conditions, operational performances, and financing mechanisms of highways, bridges, and transit systems based both on the current state of these systems and on the projected future state of these systems under a set of alternative future investment scenarios. This report offers a comprehensive, data-driven background to support the development and evaluation of legislative, program, and budget options at all levels of government. This report consolidates conditions, performance, and financial data provided by States, local governments, and mass transit operators to provide a national-level summary. Illus.