An assessment tool for the appropriateness of activity-based travel demand models

As transportation policies are changing to encourage alternative modes of transportation to reduce congestion problems and air quality impacts, more planning organizations are considering or implementing activity-based travel demand models to forecast future travel patterns. The proclivity towards operating activity-based models is the capability to model disaggregate travel data to better understand the model results that are generated with respect to the latest transportation policy implementations. This thesis first examines the differences between the two major modeling techniques used in the United States and then describes the assessment tool that was developed to recommend whether a region should convert to the advanced modeling procedures. This tool consists of parameters that were decided upon based on their known linkages to the advantages of activity-based models.

Department dc:contributor.department

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Butler, Melody Nicole

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Watkins, Kari E.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Guensler, Randall
• Southworth, Frank

• Transportation
• Activity-based models
• Travel demand modeling
• Travel demand forecasting
• Transportation planning and policy

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45948

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.gatech.edu:1853/45948