Abstract: The main difficulty in forecasting traffic volumes along a rural bypass is identifying the external traffic, both traffic entering the town from outside and traffic continuing through the town to an ultimate destination. ...

Abstract: Urban travel modeling techniques have not found widespread use in small urban communities because traditional forecasting models, designed for use in large urban cities, are very data intensive. In recent years, however, ...

Abstract: This paper examines the practically of using a single internal trip purpose to generate the production and attraction values for traffic analysis zones in small urban community travel models. In previous research efforts, ...

Abstract: Personal computer implementations of urban transportation planning (UTP) packages have resulted in a proliferation of modeling efforts. However, staff experience and availability, particularly at small planning agencies, ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on analyzing traffic facilities for an intermediate time frame. There are two methodologies examined in this work, the first uses extrapolated, historical traffic count data and the second uses an urban ...

Abstract: This paper examines a new methodology to predict external trip exchanges in small urban communities. The paper documents a study performed on several small communities in Alabama and includes a video surveillance data ...