TRANSPORTATION DEMAND FORECASTING

SPECIAL REPORT 288

 

TRB SPECIAL REPORT 288

TRB Special Report 288, Metropolitan Travel Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction, examines metropolitan travel forecasting models that provide public officials with information to inform decisions on major transportation system investments and policies.  The report explores what improvements may be needed to the models and how federal, state, and local agencies can achieve them.  According to the committee that produced the report, travel forecasting models in current use are not adequate for many of today’s necessary planning and regulatory uses.  The findings of the surveys of metropolitan planning organizations used to help develop this report are available online.  A summary of the report is available online.  On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, a TRB 2008 panel discussed the new report.  The panel members and their presentations are provided below:

 

PRESENTATION

PANELIST

Metropolitan Travel Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction

Martin Wachs, RAND Corportation

AASHTO Prespectives and Reactions to TRB Special Report 288

Deb Miller, Kansas DOT

Need for a Metropolitan Research Program

Michael Morris, NCTCOG

NAS Report 288 - FHWA Comments

Gloria Shepherd, FHWA

TRB Special Report 288 - FTA Comments

Susan Borinsky, FTA

MPO Reaction to TRB Special Report 288

Charlie Howard, PSRC

 

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Last update 1/20/2008