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    This document provides an overview of travel demand modeling conducted by the Washington State Department of Transportation Eastern Region Planning Office. It discusses the four-step travel demand modeling process used, including trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment. It provides examples of modeling for the Spokane region, including the North Spokane Corridor transportation project. Post-processing techniques are also summarized to calibrate modeling results to real-world traffic counts.

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    This document provides an overview of travel demand modeling conducted by the Washington State Department of Transportation Eastern Region Planning Office. It discusses the four-step travel demand modeling process used, including trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment. It provides examples of modeling for the Spokane region, including the North Spokane Corridor transportation project. Post-processing techniques are also summarized to calibrate modeling results to real-world traffic counts.

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    This document provides an overview of travel demand modeling conducted by the Washington State Department of Transportation Eastern Region Planning Office. It discusses the four-step travel demand modeling process used, including trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment. It provides examples of modeling for the Spokane region, including the North Spokane Corridor transportation project. Post-processing techniques are also summarized to calibrate modeling results to real-world traffic counts.

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    WSDOTERPlanning

    MikeBjordahl
    TransportationEngineer
    WSDOTEasternRegionPlanningOffice

    18th Annual NorthwestTribalTransportationSymposium


    April20, 2011

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    Sources
    Beimborn,EdwardA.ATransportationModelingPrimer.1995
    TransportationResearchBoard.NCHRP255 HighwayTrafficDataforUrbanizedArea
    Project Planning and Design 1982
    ProjectPlanningandDesign.1982
    PTV America,Inc.PTV Vision TutorialFourStepDemandModelingwithVISUM.
    Corvallis,OR,2007
    Travel Model Improvement Program (http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/)
    TravelModelImprovementProgram(http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/)

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