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Title: NCHRP Project 08-132: Peaks and Valleys: Forecasting Recreational Travel Demand
Accession Number: 01884545
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: National and state parks welcome millions of visitors annually, but seasonal surges can jam roads and overcrowd facilities. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project “Accessing America’s Great Outdoors: Forecasting Recreational Travel Demand” is harnessing smartphone data to develop models aimed at better forecasting congestion at parklands. The models use passively collected big data on mobility from many different location-aware applications on smartphones and other devices in conjunction with data on recreational-site attributes, U.S. Census Bureau data, and data on climate and topography to replicate visitation patterns to various federal and state parklands nationwide. This article takes a closer look at the developed models including: the Visitor Home Location model which predicts where U.S.-based visitors come from for a given park destination; the Access Mode and Airport model which predicts whether the traveler flies part way or drives the entire distance between home and destination and which airport is used; and the Park Visit Generation model.
Language: English
Authors: Bradley, MarkSpitz, GregLee, AaronSwanson, BenMansfield, TheodorePagination: pp 27-31
Publication Date: 2023-5
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Photos; References
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General)
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jun 3 2023 3:27PM
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