The current practice of users searching for different types geo-resources in a geographic area and wishing to identify the most convenient routes visiting relevant ones, requires iterative formulation several queries: first more interesting resources then select best route visit them. In order simplify this process, paper novel functionality information retrieval (GIR) system is proposed, which...

Transferring trip rates to areas without local survey data is a common practice which is typically performed in an ad-hoc fashion using household-based cross-classification tables. This paper applies a rule-based method called decision tree to develop individuallevel trip generation models for eight different trip purposes as defined in the National Household Travel Survey data (NHTS 2009) in a...

A survey of 17 transit-oriented developments (TOD) in five U.S. metropolitan areas showed that vehicle trips per dwelling unit were substantially below what the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s Trip Generation manual estimates. Over a typical weekday period, the surveyed TOD housing projects averaged 44 percent fewer vehicle trips than that estimated by the manual (3.754 versus 6.715). Ve...