The relationship between land use and travel behaviour is a key element in many current planning initiatives that aim at reducing car use and encouraging forms of more 'sustainable transport'. As this relationship is extremely complicated, several factors underlying it need to be explored, such as individual travel decisions (socio-economic differences between individuals and households, different travel patterns compared with different household types); and how relationships between individuals with in a household influence travel decisions. An activity-based travel demand forecasting model system is possibly the best approach that has the capabilities for exploring these factors. This paper gives an overview of a research project, with a focus on the north-west corridor of metropolitan Adelaide, that is currently being undertaken to develop such a model. The model is being tailored for use in multimodal urban transport corridors and will be able to provide estimates of likely usage for different travel modes especially in cases where alternative land use plans are being investigated. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E206301.
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