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A METHOD OF PLANNING FOR DOWNTOWN INTERNAL CIRCULATION SYSTEMS IS PRESENTED WHICH WAS DEVELOPED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. DETERMINING LOCAL CIRCULATION REQUIREMENTS INVOLVES BASIC INFORMATION NEEDED TO EVALUATE ANY OTHER COMPONENT OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. THE KINDS OF TRIPS GENERATIONS, ATTRACTIONS, ORIGINS AND DESTINATIONS, TRIP LENGTHS, AND VOLUMES HAD TO BE DETERMINED. FOUR PRIMARY CATEGORIES OF TRIP PURPOSE WERE DEFINED: (1) TERMINAL, (2) BUSINESS, (3) SHOPPING, AND (4) MISCELLANEOUS. FOUR DEVICES WERE EMPLOYED FOR THE BASIC MEASUREMENTS: (1) A SERIES OF 1,314 INTERVIEWS WITH PEDESTRIANS AT SELECTED LOCATIONS WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO DOWNTOWN, (2) A SERIES OF 29,000 QUESTIONNAIRES DISTRIBUTED TO EMPLOYEES AT SELECTED OFFICE BUILDINGS TO DETERMINE LUNCH AND SHOPPING HABITS, (3) MANUAL COUNTS OF PEOPLE ENTERING AND LEAVING TWO SELECTED OFFICE BUILDINGS, AND (4) A MANUAL ALL-DAY COUNT OF PEDESTRIANS AT 4 KEY MID-BLOCK DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS. WITH CONFIDENCE THAT A REASONABLE APPROXIMATION OF PEDESTRIAN VOLUMES CAN THUS BE OBTAINED, THE MODEL WAS THEN APPLIED TO THE PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN 1980. IN APPLYING THE DATA TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNAL CIRCULATION SYSTEM, THE COMPOSITION OF THE PEDESTRIAN VOLUMES CAN BE ANALYZED BY TRIP PURPOSE TO EVALUATE SURFACE REQUIREMENTS.

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Highway Research Board Bulletin

41st Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

Digital/other

Figures (5) ; References (1) ; Tables (6)

Central business districts; Intermodal terminals; Interviewing; Manual traffic counts; Office buildings; Pedestrians; Questionnaires; Shopping trips; Transportation planning; Trip generation; Urban transportation; Work trips

Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Terminals and Facilities

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

May 26 1994 12:00AM

• A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMAL DIVISION OF EXPRESS AND LOCAL RAIL TRANSIT SERVICE
• A NEW METHOD OF OBTAINING ORIGIN AND DESTINATION DATA
• A NEW METHOD OF TRIP DISTRIBUTION IN AN URBAN AREA
• A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE ON INTER-COMMUNITY TRAFFIC
• A THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF WORK TRIPS IN THE MINNEAPOLIS- ST. PAUL AREA
• A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULUS MODEL OF URBAN SETTLEMENT
• An Evaluation of Land-Use and Dwelling-Unit Data Derived from Aerial Photography
• AN ITERATIVE ASSIGNMENT APPROACH TO CAPACITY RESTRAINT ON ARTERIAL NETWORKS
• Application of systems engineering methods to traffic forecasting
• Capacity restraint in multi-travel mode assignment programs
• CHARACTERISTICS OF CAPTIVE AND CHOICE TRANSIT TRIPS IN THE PITTSBURGH METROPOLITAN AREA
• CORRIDOR ANALYSIS OF TRAVEL DESIRES AS UTILIZED IN MAJOR STREET PLANNING
• DETERMINATION OF O-D ZONES BY MEANS OF LAND-USE DATA
• ELECTRONIC MAPPING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
• EVALUATION OF GRAVITY MODEL TRIP DISTRIBUTION PROCEDURES
• FORMING A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION FLOWS MODEL
• Impact of industrial development on traffic generation in rural areas of North Carolina
• OCCUPATION, COMMUTING, AND LIMITED-ACCESS HIGHWAY USE
• THE DATAPLOTTER-A TOOL FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND LAND-USE ALTERNATIVES
• TRAVEL MODE SPLIT IN ASSIGNMENT PROGRAMS
• TRIP GENERATION AND THE HOME
• USE OF PRE-INTERVIEW TRIP CARDS IN DEVELOPING A TRAFFIC MODEL FOR THE HAMILTON AREA TRANSPORTATION STUDY