 Feeding it with predicted data for population, employment, etc.

results in estimates of future

traffic, typically estimated for each segment of the transportation

4-step Transportation model:

 Trip Generation: Relates the number of trips being produced from a zone or site by time period
to the land use and demographic characteristics found at that location.
 Trip Distribution: Connect trip origins and destinations estimated by the trip generation models.
 Mode Split: computes the proportion of trips between each origin and destination that use a
particular transportation mode (this modal model may be of the logit form).
 Trip Assignment: Assigns trips to paths through the network