NTL Record

Title Vehicle Availability Modeling: Volume 1 [1997]
Record ID 7606
Source 42p. in various pagings
Corporate Creator Cambridge Systematics
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publication Date 19970500
Language English
Abstract The number of motor vehicles available to a household has a major impact on the travel behavior of the members of the household. As a result, many metropolitan planning organizations have incorporated models of household vehicle availability or automobile ownership into their travel forecasting model systems. This report summarizes the current state of the practice in modeling vehicle availability. In the past, these models were most frequently labeled auto ownership models, but more recently the term vehicle availability has been used. This report provides examples of a number of types of vehicle availability models and specifies their data sources, explanatory variables, and details of their implementation. Each example model is also evaluated, both relative to alternative models and with respect to the types of applications by metropolitan planning organizations and statewide planners for which the model is best suited. The link for this record leads to a report copy in HTML format. The report is also in PDF format at <http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/clearinghouse/docs/surveys/vam/vam.pdf>. 7 Tables, 3 figures, 42p.
Rosap ID dot:38739
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38739
TRT Terms Transportation planning; Automobile ownership; Census; Data collection; Travel behavior; Trip generation; Mode choice; Trip distribution; Choice models; State of the practice; Motor vehicles
General Subjects Aggregate models; Census data; Disaggregate models; Household vehicle availability
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
783659
Report Number FHWA-EP-01-005
Resource type Research Paper
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/7000/7600/7606/vam.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository