T raffic impact analysis is a common tool for assessing traffic access needs in the vicinity of new and expanding development sites. Considerable attention has been given in recent years to the development and refinement of procedures and data bases to support these analyses. It has been recognized for some time that shopping centers and several other convenience-oriented land-use types (e.g., ...

Shopping centres have transformed consumers’ consumption patterns, behaviour, and spatial trips. Consumers’ shopping trips shifted from traditional streets to centres. Their decision patronise a centre is generally influenced by set of attributes that consumers consider commanding them visit the centre. These or reasons establish centre’s role in neighbourhood. This paper aims analyse for visit...

The objective of this study was to observe parent-child interactions in tiendas, limited assortment food stores catering to Latinos in the United States, and to examine the extent to which child involvement influenced these interactions and their purchase outcomes. Two confederates, one posing as a tienda employee and one posing as a customer, observed the entire shopping trip of 100 Latino par...

the conventional intervening opportunity model which is potentially a powerful analytical and probabilistic model, has been used in transportation planning to model trip distribution pattern. this model is basically suffering from two main limitations. these limitations are the assumptions that trip makers are fully aware of all available opportunities in the area and their trip lengths to all ...

In order to investigate the issues in measurement of value of travel time savings (VTTS), the willingness-to-accept (WTA) for the private car owner is studied by using surveyed data. It is convincing that trip purpose, trip length, time savings, cost savings, income, and allowance from employee have effects on the WTA. Moreover, influences of these variables are not the same for different trip ...

This paper discusses the development of an afternoon peak period trip generation model for both work and non-work trips. Three data sources are used in model development, a Household Travel Survey, a Census-Update Survey, and a Trip Generation Study. Seven one-direction trip purposes are defined, specifically accounting for stops made on the return trip from work to home. Trips are classified b...