Today's transportation professionals often use the ITE Trip Generation Manual and the Parking Generation Manual for estimating future traffic volumes to base off-site transportation improvements and identify parking requirements. But these manuals are inadequate for assessing the claims made by specific transportation demand management (TDM) programs in reducing vehicle trips by a certain amount at particular work sites. This paper presents a work site trip reduction model (WTRM) that can help transportation professionals in assessing those claims. WTRM was built on data from three urban areas in the United States: Los Angeles, California; Tucson, Arizona; and nine counties in Washington State. The data consist of work sites’ employee modal characteristics aggregated at the employer level and a listing of incentives and amenities offered by employers. The dependent variable chosen was the change in vehicle trip rate that correlated with the goals of TDM programs. Two different approaches were used in the model-building process: linear statistical regression and nonlinear neural networks. For performance evaluation the data sets were divided into two disjoint sets: a training set, which was used to build the models, and a validation set, which was used as unseen data to evaluate the models. Because the number of data samples varied from the three areas, two training data sets were formed: one consisted of all training data samples from three areas and the other contained equally sampled training data from the three areas. The best model was the neural net model built on equally sampled training data.


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    Title :

    Work Site Trip Reduction Model and Manual


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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