Travel Demand Models of University Students

One of our DTC instructors, Dr. Daniel Findley, recently co-authored a paper in the Travel Behaviour and Society Journal on a multi-year project focused on developing travel demand models for university student trips that affect the road systems surrounding university campuses in North Carolina. The paper explores the relationship between trip frequency as a function of travel mode and distance from students’ residence to campus. This paper shows that non-motorized trips comprise the majority of predicted trips at short distances from campus, while automobile and transit trips comprise the majority of trips at longer distances. Further, the average number of daily trips peak at a distance between 0.25 and 0.5 miles before dropping rapidly for non-motorized travel modes, but peak and plateau at greater distances (two miles and four miles, respectively) for automobile and transit trips. - Daniel Findley, DTC Civil Transportation Instructor

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