Accessing America's Great Outdoors: Forecasting Recreational Travel Demand
Recreational travel is a major and growing activity in the United States. Recreation trips to
outdoor parklands tend to have different characteristics than trips for other types of recreation, such as
entertainment, sporting events, and regular exercise.
NCHRP Web-Only Document 380: Accessing America's Great Outdoors: Forecasting Recreational Travel Demand,
from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program,
builds a set of models and open-source tools to predict recreational travel
demand to “America’s Great Outdoors.” The demand models and tools created in this project could allow
states, regional agencies, and public land managers to predict visitor demand and vehicle travel to their
recreational sites under a variety of future scenarios.
Supplemental to the document are an
Executive Summary, an
Implementation of Research Findings,
and a
Model Implementation Handbook.
This Summary Last Modified On: 10/20/2023