CHALLENGES FOR TRAVEL DEMAND FORECASTING

Passenger Travel Demand Forecasting

This paper addresses the importance of travel forecasting, the general direction of emerging forecasting methods, the importance of integrating land use and transportation forecasting, and this committee’s relationship to other committees at the Transportation Research Board (TRB). In particular, the movement from trip-based to activity-pattern or activity-scheduling methods of modeling is emph...

A Dynamic Microsimulator for Travel Demand Forecasting

is one of ten regional units mandated by Congress and established in Fall 1988 to support research, education, and training in surface transportation. The UC Center serves federal Region 1X and is supported by matching grants from tile U. Angeles: and several academic departments at the Berkeley, Davis, lrvine, and Los Angeles campuses. Faculty and students on other University of California cam...

Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques

Challenges in forecasting peak electricity demand

We want to forecast the peak electricity demand in a half-hour period in twenty years time. We have fifteen years of half-hourly electricity data, temperature data and some economic and demographic data. The location is South Australia: home to the most volatile electricity demand in the world.

Forecasting Demand For New Consumer Services : Challenges And Alternatives