Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

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Public Transport Planning in Urban Areas

Figure 6.16 b: Solution Approach

a. Public transport demand forecasting

The base year O-D person trips matrices were generated from household interview survey

data. In this stage, the model requires home interview survey, screen line, cordon line,

and network data. Base year travel demand modelling involves development of trip end

and trip distribution models. Trip end models are developed only for intracity trips made

by residents of the study area, using a stepwise multiple linear regression technique. All

external trips are modelled by the growth factor ...