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Population growth in western North Dakota from those seeking employment in the oil industry has led to substantial increases in personal income and transit ridership. Local survey findings noted that population growth has impacted the quality of life by increasing pressure on infrastructure and increasing...

The growing uncertainty about oil prices and availability has made long-range transportation planning more challenging. Rather than relying on trend extrapolation, this study uses market mechanisms to evaluate key long-range transportation planning assumptions. Although the Washington Department of Transportation...

This document discusses the development of an Activity Based Model ABM for the Fargo Moorhead Travel Demand Model. The activity-based approach to travel demand analysis views travel as a derived demand; derived from the need to pursue activities distributed in space, i.e. transportation is consumed due...

Street networks designed to support Transit Oriented Development (TOD) increase accessibility for non-motorized traffic. However, the implications of TOD supportive networks for still dominant vehicular traffic are rarely addressed. Due to this lack of research, decision making in favor of TOD supportive...

This research develops a two-stage approach for estimating a statewide truck origin-destination (O-D) trip table. The proposed approach is supported by two sequential stages: one estimates the commodity-based truck O-D trip table primarily derived from the commodity flow database, and the other refines...

The Advanced Traffic Analysis Center (ATAC) at North Dakota State University is responsible for updating and maintaining the Fargo-Moorhead Metro Council of Governments (FM Metro COG) Travel Demand Model (TDM) since the 2000 base year scenario. The model is updated every five years. The model is developed...

The Advanced Traffic Analysis Center (ATAC) at North Dakota State University is responsible for updating and maintaining the Grand Forks / East Grand Forks Metropolitan Travel Demand Model (TDM). The model is updated every five years. The model is developed in Citilabs Cube Voyager software and comprises...

ATAC worked with the Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Planning Organization on updating the regional travel demand model. The work included updating the transportation network; updating the socio-economic data for the traffic analysis zones (TAZ); and calibrating the model to the 2007 traffic data. Once...

ATAC worked with the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments on updating the regional travel demand model. The work included updating the transportation network; updating the socio-economic data for the traffic analysis zones (TAZ); and calibrating the model to the 2005 traffic data. Once...

Mobility for the aging is a topic of paramount importance around the world. Women may face the greatest mobility challenges because of their tendency to live longer than men, to have more health-related problems than men, and to stop driving earlier than men. Therefore, it is important to better understand...