The authors develop a contingent trip model to estimate the recreation demand for and value of a potential rail-trail site in north-east Georgia. The contingent trip model is an alternative to travel cost modelling useful for ex ante evaluation of proposed recreation resources or management alternatives. The authors estimate the empirical demand for trips using a negative binomial regression sp...

This study underscores the importance of adopting integrated parking management policies that ensure not only more rational use of the available parking spaces, evenly balancing supply and demand and bringing in revenues to cover the parking facilities costs, but also the improved attractiveness of alternative transportation modes. Parking supply and demand flows within the UC campus are estima...

This article reports on the practical use of a multi-agent microsimulation framework to address the issue of assessing drivers' responses to pretrip information systems. The population of drivers is represented as a community of autonomous agents, and travel demand results from the decision-making deliberation performed by each individual of the population as regards route and departure time. A...

Over the past half-century, the progress of travel behavior research and travel demand forecasting has been spear headed and continuously propelled by the micro-economic theories, specifically utility maximization. There is no denial that the travel demand models today are sophisticated and in most cases capable of forecasting the main stream of travel behavior in urban areas. However, a quick ...

We propose a model and solution methods, for locating a fixed number of multiple-server, congestible common service centers or congestible public facilities. Locations are chosen so to minimize consumers’ congestion (or queuing) and travel costs, considering that all the demand must be served. Customers choose the facilities to which they travel in order to receive service at minimum travel and...

Supported by general revenues from the State of Texas. 16. Abstract In the United States, a significant number of individuals depend on the auto mode of transportation. The high auto dependency, in turn, has resulted in high auto travel demand on highways. The resulting traffic congestion levels, surging oil prices, the limited ability to address increased auto travel demand through building a...

This paper uses contingent behavior and contingent pricing analyses to explore the proper valuation of time and transport costs within the context of recreation demand. The contingent behavior analysis poses hypothetical increases in access fees, travel time, and travel distance and considers recreation demand responses. As a useful complement, the contingent pricing analysis poses hypothetical...