A new type of transport model UMOT (Unified Mechanism of Travel) has been developed by Zahavi for the World Bank as an aid to urban transport planning. The feature which distinguishes UMOT from practically all other transport models is the way it takes into account known regularities in the amount of time and money which people spend daily on travel. The relationships which express the travel budgets in terms of demographic variables are expected to be transferable from town to town and so little, if any, calibration of the model is necessary. The aim of this special program of study is to see how the UMOT model responds to changes in the major parameters and to compare predicted travel characteristics with values observed in Reading, UK.
Urban Transport Modelling with Fixed Travel Budgets (An Evaluation of the UMOT Process)
1983
47 pages
Report
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English
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