Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

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Public Transport Planning in Urban Areas

The purpose of the travel demand modelling phase of the urban transportation infrastruc-

ture planning process is to perform a conditional prediction of travel demand in order to

estimate the likely transportation consequences of several transportation alternatives that

are being considered for implementation. This prediction is also conditional on a predicted

target-year land-use pattern. The major components of travel behavior were identified as:

1. The decision to travel for a given purpose (trip generation).

2. The choice of destination (trip distribution). ...