Planning Techniques to Estimate Speeds and Service Volumes for Planning Applications
Category: Transportation Planning
This report recommends methods for transportation planners to estimate speeds and service volumes. Methods are presented for long-range transportation planning and other planning applications such as traffic impact analyses and major investment studies. For this research, planning agencies were surveyed to determine their needs and capabilities, existing methods of estimating speeds and service volumes were reviewed, and improved methods were developed. Recommendations are presented for long-range transportation planning and sketch planning (for which very little data are available and computational efficiency is very important) and for other types of planning studies. NCHRP Report 387. National Academy Press, 1997. 151 pp., ISBN No: 0-309-060-58-3.
Item LP-507. Member price: $34.00, Nonmember price: $43.00
Transportation Research Record No. 1733: Transportation Network Planning
Category: Transit-General/Transportation Planning
Papers presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 2000. TRB, 2000, 121 pp., ISBN No: 0-309067-36-7
Item LP-612. Member price: $38.00, Nonmember price: $45.00
Travel Estimation Techniques for Urban Planning
Category: Demand Forecasting
This report updates NCHRP Report 187, Quick-Response Urban Travel Estimation Techniques and Transferable Parameters (1978). It provides a thorough review of the four-step travel demand process and transferable parameters that can be used in simple planning analyses. It will be particularly useful to planners in smaller urban areas that cannot afford to develop area-specific parameters. A case study illustrates how the techniques and parameters can be applied in a typical study. NCHRP Report 365. TRB, 1998. 178 pp., ISBN No: 0-309053-65-X
Item LP-525. Member price: $41.00, Nonmember price: $52.00
Travel Demand Forecasting Processes used by Ten Large Metropolitan Areas
Category: ITE Informational Report/Transportation Planning
This Informational Report discusses the travel demand forecasting processes used by several large Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Topics covered include zones and networks, trip purposes, trip generation, gravity models, modal split, and traffic assignments. By Technical Council Committee 6Y-53, chaired by William W. Mann, P.E. An Informational Report. ITE, 1993, 102 pp.
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Guidebook for Forecasting Freight Transportation Demand, A
Category: Demand Forecasting
This report provides reference information on freight transportation planning processes, techniques, tools, data, and applications. The report is organized in a Guidebook format to assist planning practitioners and policy analysts to effectively integrate freight planning and demand forecasting into the broader multimodal transportation planning process. The appendices of the Guidebook contain useful information concerning factors impacting freight demand; freight demand forecasting studies; freight data sources; descriptions of survey procedures; statistical forecasting techniques; transport cost estimation; modal diversion and descriptions of related models; case studies; and public agency information needs. NCHRP Report 388. TRB: Cambridge Systematics, Inc., 1997. 169 pp., ISBN No: 0-309060-59-1
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