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 Travel Demand Forecasting: Lab Exercises

 
Lab Exercise 2: Cross-Classification

Twenty households in the city of Scoretown were sampled for household income, autos per household and trips produced.

Households

Trips

Income(dollars)

Autos

1

2

3

4

5

2

4

10

5

5

4000

6000

17,000

11,000

4,500

0

0

2

0

1

6

7

8

9

10

15

7

4

6

13

17,000

9,500

9,000

7,000

19,000

3

1

0

1

3

11

12

13

14

15

8

9

9

11

10

18,000

21,000

7,000

11,000

11,000

1

1

2

2

2

16

17

18

19

20

11

12

8

8

9

13,000

15,000

11,000

13,000

15,000

2

2

1

1

1

 Tasks to be Completed

Task 1: Develop matrices relating income to automobiles available.

Task 2: Draw a graph relating trips per household to income.

Task 3: Using the results of tasks 1 and 2, calculate how many trips a household with an income of $10,000, owning one auto, will make per day?

Task 4: Perform a similar analysis for the same household, but with an additional vehicle.

Task 5: Prepare a brief report documenting your analysis of the data for Scoretown, and the impact of increased auto ownership on travel demand patterns.

Task 6: Prepare a 3-5 page report discussing the important issues involved in managing and even reducing travel demand, as measured by vehicle miles driven for the city of Scoretown or your own community.