Estimation of Seasonal Daily Traffic Flow of Agricultural Products and Implications for Implementation of Automatic Traffic Recorders

摘要: Reliable traffic counts on a highway system are critical for sound decision making about the maintenance, operation, and expansion of system. Portable short-term automatic recorders (ATRs) cost-efficient way to complement from permanent ATR sites by performing temporary Complicating collection data with these devices is seasonal variation in vehicle operations throughout year. This work focused predicting spatial distribution resulting agricultural activities using new method that combines geographic information functions four-step travel demand model. research collected township grids Montana (as proxies trip origins), grain elevators (trip destinations), ground cover, crop yield estimates estimate flows tonnage at grid level road network. Results suggest proposed metho...