This Transportation Research Record contains 23 papers on the subject of transportation planning and analysis. Specific topics discussed include the following: network expansion decision making; training needs of metropolitan planning organization participants; practical method for developing trip tables from travel demand modeling inputs; tour-based model for analysis of New Starts project; advanced activity-based models; modeling time-of-day choice; summary of recommendations from the Travel Model Improvement Program's Peer Review Program; Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule; multimodal statewide transportation planning; developing a statewide travel demand model; consensus building in transportation planning; geography of public participation; using community surveys and focus groups to inform context-sensitive design; public involvement and Florida's metropolitan planning organizations' perspectives; public involvement conflict management system; direct demand forecasting model for small urban communities; forecasting traffic impacts without a travel demand model; financial benefits of early right-of-way acquisition; selection and scheduling of interdependent transportation projects; access management plan for Des Moines, Iowa, metropolitan area; U.S. national park roads and parkways documentation; national park entrance stations; and lifestyles, residential location decisions, and pedestrian and transit activity. The 2006 series of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board consists of approximately 820 papers selected from 2,800 submissions after rigorous peer review. The peer review for each paper published in this volume was coordinated by the sponsoring committee acknowledged at the end of the text; members of the sponsoring committees for the papers in this volume are listed on page II. Many of these papers were presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 2006. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting