DESCRIPTION:
Through classroom lectures and interactive workshops, this introductory course covers the traditional four-step modeling process of trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment. The course includes presentations on land use inputs,
network and zone structures, time of day factoring, and reasonableness checking.
In order to ensure that participants have a basic overview of travel demand forecasting, each registered participant will receive a Self-Instructional CD--entitled Introduction to Travel Forecasting--in advance of a scheduled session. To ensure that these
CDs are shipped, we request that the Host provide the instructor coordinator with names and mailing addresses of their registrants. Participants are expected to complete the CD in advance of the session
A half day computer lab exercise is included to reinforce the concepts presented in the classroom. The hosting organization is responsible for providing MS Windows microcomputers with color graphics, color monitors, and at least 10 megabytes of hard disk
space. There should be no more than two participants per computer station.
Prerequisites: Computer experience and an understanding of college-level algebra. Participants must bring scientific calculators to the session.
OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of travel forecasting within transportation planning
- Explain the principles of the four-step model: trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment
- Demonstrate how input data is used in each step of the four-step model
- Identify reasonableness checks for model inputs, outputs, and equations
- Interpret the outputs from each step
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Federal, State, local planners, and engineers, and consultants who wish to gain a better understanding of the principles and applications of travel demand forecasting models.
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The National Highway Institute (NHI) has been approved as an Authorized Provider
by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET),
1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. In obtaining this approval, NHI
has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standards which are widely
recognized as standards of good practice internationally. As a result of their Authorized
Provider membership status, NHI is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs
that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standards.
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