Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 6: The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand (2014) / Chapter Skim
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4An aim of this study was to help policy makers and planners in state and local transportation agencies gain an improved understanding of the fundamental relationships between social and demographic factors and travel demand, and how these relationships may change over the next 30 to 50 years. Such information is critical, because it is a basic element in the formulation of long-range transportation plans.
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Long-Range Planning in an Uncertain World 5 on representations of actual populations. Therefore, the unit of analysis is shifted from rough aggregates to the level of the individual traveler.
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6 The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand go ahead, favor optimistic forecasts over pessimistic ones (see also Flyvbjerg et al.
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Long-Range Planning in an Uncertain World 7 projects, plans, and forecasts; and examine policy or other interventions that may offset or enhance these trends. The tool incorporates two elements: (1)
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8 The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand • Facilitating participation in the planning and decision-making processes. • Serving as a sketch-planning tool for providing quick and timely answers, as well as supporting sensitivity and exploratory analysis.
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