01626181

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2653-09

The Tennessee Department of Transportation replaced the quick-response-based long-distance component in its statewide model by integrating the new national long-distance passenger travel demand model in a new statewide model and calibrating it to long-distance trips observed in cell phone origin–destination data. The national long-distance model is a tour-based simulation model developed from FHWA research on long-distance travel behavior and patterns. The tool allows the evaluation of many policy scenarios, including fare or service changes for various modes, such as commercial air, intercity bus, Amtrak rail, and highway travel. The availability of this tool presents an opportunity for state departments of transportation in developing statewide models. Commercial big data from cell phones for long-distance trips also presents an opportunity and a new data source for long-distance travel patterns, which previously have been the subject of limited data collection, in the form of surveys. This project is the first to seize on both of these opportunities by integrating the national long-distance model with the new Tennessee statewide model and by processing big data for use as a calibration target for long-distance travel in a statewide model. The paper demonstrates the feasibility of integrating the national model with statewide models, the ability of the national model to be calibrated to new data sources, the ability to combine multiple big data sources, and the value of big data on long-distance travel, as well as important lessons on its expansion.

01634576

17-00513

English

pp 75–81

2017

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309441599

Digital/other

Figures (2) ; References (22) ; Tables (3)

Calibration; Data files; Passenger transportation; State departments of transportation; Travel; Travel demand; Travel patterns; Trip length

Tennessee Department of Transportation; U.S. Federal Highway Administration

Big data; Long distance travel; Statewide travel models

Tennessee

Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:06AM

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