conducted trip meaning

• 1 Activities
• 2.1 Home-end
• 2.2 Work-end
• 2.3 Shop-end
• 3 Input Data
• 4.1 Home-end
• 4.2 Non-home-end
• 5 Normalization
• 6 Sample Problems
• 7 Variables
• 8 Abbreviations
• 9 External Exercises
• 10 Additional Problems
• 11 End Notes
• 12 Further reading
• 14 References

Activities [ edit | edit source ]

People engage in activities, these activities are the "purpose" of the trip. Major activities are home, work, shop, school, eating out, socializing, recreating, and serving passengers (picking up and dropping off). There are numerous other activities that people engage on a less than daily or even weekly basis, such as going to the doctor, banking, etc. Often less frequent categories are dropped and lumped into the catchall "Other".

Every trip has two ends, an origin and a destination. Trips are categorized by purposes , the activity undertaken at a destination location.

Some observations:

• Men and women behave differently on average, splitting responsibilities within households, and engaging in different activities,
• Most trips are not work trips, though work trips are important because of their peaked nature (and because they tend to be longer in both distance and travel time),
• The vast majority of trips are not people going to (or from) work.

People engage in activities in sequence, and may chain their trips. In the Figure below, the trip-maker is traveling from home to work to shop to eating out and then returning home.

Specifying Models [ edit | edit source ]

How do we predict how many trips will be generated by a zone? The number of trips originating from or destined to a purpose in a zone are described by trip rates (a cross-classification by age or demographics is often used) or equations. First, we need to identify what we think the relevant variables are.

Home-end [ edit | edit source ]

The total number of trips leaving or returning to homes in a zone may be described as a function of:

Home-End Trips are sometimes functions of:

• Housing Units
• Household Size
• Accessibility
• Vehicle Ownership
• Other Home-Based Elements

Work-end [ edit | edit source ]

At the work-end of work trips, the number of trips generated might be a function as below:

Work-End Trips are sometimes functions of:

• Area of Workspace
• Occupancy Rate
• Other Job-Related Elements

Shop-end [ edit | edit source ]

Similarly shopping trips depend on a number of factors:

Shop-End Trips are sometimes functions of:

• Number of Retail Workers
• Type of Retail Available
• Area of Retail Available
• Competition
• Other Retail-Related Elements

Input Data [ edit | edit source ]

A forecasting activity conducted by planners or economists, such as one based on the concept of economic base analysis, provides aggregate measures of population and activity growth. Land use forecasting distributes forecast changes in activities across traffic zones.

Estimating Models [ edit | edit source ]

Which is more accurate: the data or the average? The problem with averages (or aggregates) is that every individual’s trip-making pattern is different.

To estimate trip generation at the home end, a cross-classification model can be used. This is basically constructing a table where the rows and columns have different attributes, and each cell in the table shows a predicted number of trips, this is generally derived directly from data.

In the example cross-classification model: The dependent variable is trips per person. The independent variables are dwelling type (single or multiple family), household size (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5+ persons per household), and person age.

The figure below shows a typical example of how trips vary by age in both single-family and multi-family residence types.

The figure below shows a moving average.

Non-home-end [ edit | edit source ]

The trip generation rates for both “work” and “other” trip ends can be developed using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression (a statistical technique for fitting curves to minimize the sum of squared errors (the difference between predicted and actual value) relating trips to employment by type and population characteristics.

A typical form of the equation can be expressed as:

Normalization [ edit | edit source ]

For each trip purpose (e.g. home to work trips), the number of trips originating at home must equal the number of trips destined for work. Two distinct models may give two results. There are several techniques for dealing with this problem. One can either assume one model is correct and adjust the other, or split the difference.

It is necessary to ensure that the total number of trip origins equals the total number of trip destinations, since each trip interchange by definition must have two trip ends.

The rates developed for the home end are assumed to be most accurate,

The basic equation for normalization:

Sample Problems [ edit | edit source ]

• Problem ( Solution )

Variables [ edit | edit source ]

Abbreviations [ edit | edit source ]

• H2W - Home to work
• W2H - Work to home
• W2O - Work to other
• O2W - Other to work
• H2O - Home to other
• O2H - Other to home
• O2O - Other to other
• HBO - Home based other (includes H2O, O2H)
• HBW - Home based work (H2W, W2H)
• NHB - Non-home based (O2W, W2O, O2O)

External Exercises [ edit | edit source ]

Use the ADAM software at the STREET website and try Assignment #1 to learn how changes in analysis zone characteristics generate additional trips on the network.

Additional Problems [ edit | edit source ]

• Additional Problems

End Notes [ edit | edit source ]

Further reading [ edit | edit source ].

• Trip Generation article on wikipedia

Videos [ edit | edit source ]

• Trip Generation
• Normalization

References [ edit | edit source ]

• Book:Fundamentals of Transportation

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conduct verb ( ORGANIZE )

• She said that she didn't want a lawyer and was going to conduct her own defence .
• The company agreed to conduct a feasibility study for a hydroelectric plant at Aimores.
• Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy .
• A new team of detectives were called in to conduct a fresh inquiry .
• The election campaign was not conducted very cleanly .
• (your) every move idiom
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conduct verb ( BEHAVE )

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• humanization
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• provincialist
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conduct verb ( SHOW WAY )

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Jay Pateakos grew up in New Bedford, worked in Fall River for years, and now is the director of Taunton’s Office of Economic and Community Development . Commuter rail service will soon connect the three Southeast Massachusetts cities to Boston after delays and decades of advocacy, and he said residents still don’t believe it’s going to happen.

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority anticipates service on the South Coast Rail beginning this summer, marking the first time since the late 1950s when passengers can take a one-seat trip from Southeast Massachusetts to Boston, Lisa Battiston, the transportation authority’s deputy press secretary, said in an email to the Globe.

Real estate experts and development officials say the extended rail service will incentivize new development and housing in the region at a time when the inventory in the state’s housing market is nearly bottoming out. But new transportation access could temporarily bump up costs in some areas, they said, stopping short of predicting that prices would shift across these cities in the long run.

Pateakos said Taunton is trying its best to keep rents as low as possible.

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Hatton said buyers started migrating out of Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the rail expansion may bring even more buyers to the Southeast. “We’re very much hoping that as the rails expand, and as development increases around those locations, that there’s going to be an opportunity for people to have a bit of relief compared to what they’re experiencing today,” she said.

Total listings in Bristol County have fallen from 2,060 in July 2016 to just 460 in January 2024, according to the Realtors.com data compiled by the Federal Reserve. In Suffolk County, the change was less dramatic, as inventory dropped from 1,309 to 857 during the same period.

A 275-unit development is coming to the same parcel as East Taunton Station , said Michael Boujoulian , the New England managing director of Alliance Residential Co. , the 43-acre site’s developer. The company became interested in the property after it heard that construction on the station had begun.

“I can say that without the train there, our interest level would have certainly been quite a bit less,” Boujoulian said of the site, which will feature mostly one- and two-bedroom units.

Hatton said the train’s reliability will matter. Joe Bernardi and Katie Searl, who live in Malden, were checking out a home at 60 Richmond Ave. in Worcester in late February. They’d love to stay near Boston, Searl said, but it’s hard to find an income property there under $700,000.

Searl grew up in Worcester and was living there a few years ago when she experienced a medical emergency that kept her from driving. She had to leave home by 6 or 7 a.m. to get to Boston by 10 a.m. on the commuter rail, she said.

“It was just very frustrating not having any independence, which is one of the reasons I moved into Boston, and you just felt really stuck,” Searl said, adding that the state should make the trains faster and more accessible.

Battiston said more than 93 percent of commuter rail trains arrived within five minutes of their scheduled arrival times in 2023. She said the MBTA believes the rail has the potential to jump-start significant economic development.

Once the South Coast Rail is operational, Washington said, “more people will choose to maximize their Boston salaries and save on housing by residing in Fall River, because that is a huge pain point right now.”

Pateakos called the South Coast Rail “transformative.” He said Taunton wants to make the corridor around Route 140 just down the street from the station a destination.

“We don’t want people to just come to the rail and leave,” Pateakos said. “We want people to come to the rail and be like: ‘ Oh, my god, Taunton is awesome. I’m going to go to this arcade, or I’m going to go to this restaurant or shopping.’ ”

Santos said the train schedule will be limited at first, “but you have to start somewhere, right?”

Every Massachusetts community is short on housing, he continued, from senior housing to low-income units.

“There’s a need across every band,” Santos said, “and it’ll be interesting for us to see once the commuter rail starts, how those trends start to actually evolve for real.”

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