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Trip Generation
Trip Generation is a process in transportation demand
modeling that predicts decisions to make trips for
specified purposes based on the characteristics of both
land use and trip makers.
During this step, trip-making ability is predicted based on the characteristics of
the activity and some measure of transportation service to or from a section of
the study area.
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Trip Purposes
►In general, trip generation models are used to
predict the number of trips within geographical
subareas (zones), usually on a daily basis and for
several trip purposes.
►The number of purposes may vary from one urban
area to another, depending on the complexity of the
model.
►The purposes are, at a minimum, divided into
home-based work, home-based
nonwork and
nonhome-based trips.
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