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Major changes will take place in the next 5-30 years that will shape the way people live, communicate and travel. Long distance and intercity travel model guidelines are limited, and therefore little attention to these trips is given during the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) estimation. A national survey was developed to understand the current national state of the practice for long distance and intercity travel modeling among MPOs. The results of this research intend to provide research, agencies, policy makers, and stakeholder at all level with insight about long distance and intercity travel modeling to improve actual polices and techniques being deployed in the field. The paper used a size and connectivity approach to analyze the results. Small, medium and large MPOs vary greatly in the way long distance and intercity travel is currently being address. Their future expectation also provides evidence of reasonable changes in traveling patterns and connective between planning areas. Lastly, this paper aims to provide a start point for further research that conclude in a set of guidelines that provided MPOs, specially, with a discussed, studied, and tested framework to standardize long distance and intercity travel modeling.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ10 Standing Committee on National Transportation Data Requirements and Programs.

19-04242

English

5p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References

Intercity travel; Metropolitan planning organizations; State of the practice; Transportation planning

Long distance travel

Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General)

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-04242

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:34AM