Evaluation of origin-destination matrix estimation techniques to support aspects of traffic modeling.

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• Creators:
  Anderson, Michael ; Wilson, Jeffrey ; Khan, Tahmina
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Alabama. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Origin and destination
  • Trip matrices
  • Travel demand
  • Traffic models
  • Traffic forecasting
  • Trip generation
  • Methodology
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Alabama
• Corporate Publisher:
  Alabama. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Travel demand forecasting models are used to predict future traffic volumes to evaluate ; roadway improvement alternatives. Each of the metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) in ; Alabama maintains a travel demand model to support planning efforts. For smaller areas, non- ; MPOs, no travel demand models exist to support planning efforts. The goal of this project is to ; examine the use of a methodology that can utilize existing traffic counts to develop ; origin/destination matrices in an attempt to improve existing travel demand models and support ; the development of new travel demand models in areas that are too small to maintain their own ; models. Applying the methodology to develop the origin/destination matrix for a community ; from existing traffic counts has the potential to be used to evaluate area friction factors, be used ; to support the development/refinement of trip generation models and determine the level of ; external-internal and external-external traffic.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27751/dot_27751_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.59 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:304ba39a835d3df7ce953f625c1ab0540acfc5d42122344eee872e92b7ba51c9041497880c4bb39eb5b49a70959daf7d92eea55f4dc08b922f4f91b47b34c913