Travel Analysis Methods for the 1980s

TRB Special Report 201: Travel Analysis Methods for the 1980s is the proceedings of a conference which assessed the planning methods, in particular travel analysis methods and their applications, as a follow-up to the Conference on Urban Transportation Planning in the 1980s, held at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, in November 1981.

At the 1981 meeting new requirements for urban transportation planning were identified and issues requiring planning attention were discussed. These requirements and issues formed the basis for the 1982 conference. It is also a natural outgrowth of four international conferences on travel behavior and travel demand modeling. This conference, as have others, attempted to consolidate and codify the growing body of literature on travel analysis procedures. By bringing together practitioners and researchers to share ideas and concerns, it also focused on the interaction between theory and practice. The aim of the conference was to determine how travel analysis methods can and should be applied to various problems. Therefore, identifying methods, defining the state of the art, describing how methods can and have been applied, identifying gaps between art and practice that require greater dissemination of current knowledge, and developing research were the focal points of the four-day meeting. The state of the art and the state of the practice of travel analysis procedures were assessed and evaluated with the express intent of determining their applicability to critical issues for the 1980s. (Author)