An important part in initiating model improvements is establishing what techniques are being used in other areas and their associated costs. For this purpose, planning agencies need information on the state of the practice in travel forecasting. Information on different modeling approaches being applied in areas around the country is not currently available in one place, meaning agencies desiring that information must contact other agencies directly.
The focus of this effort was to collect information from planning agencies on techniques being used in their areas, organize the information in a user-friendly way, and make it readily available. It was detremined in the Fall of 2003 that a more appropriate way to accomplish this task was to approach NAS to manage and conduct a Modeling Synthesis project. The "Characteristics" project has subsequently been discontinued.
To assemble and disseminate information on travel forecasting techniques in practice
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