The Development of Trip Chaining Approaches in Travel Demand Modelling

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate trip chaining into travel demand analysis, and also to develop a model for an estimation of trip generation. Before the discussion on the model formulation, a brief historical review of trip chaining approaches is presented, and some validations of those approaches are explored. The model proposed here is able to explain the derived nature of travel demand due to various kinds of business activities in a metropolitan area. One particular concern is to describe the cycle-sojourn zone distribution, which plays an important role for generating a sequence of business trips. In this model, the cycle-sojourn zone distribution is formulated by applying an entropy maximizing distribution model of the gravity type. From its application, it can be found that this model is useful for representing business trip chaining behaviours in a single day.