The use of land development simulation models in transportation planning. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1969.

This paper describes the Bay Area Simulation Study or BASS model that was developed for forecasting future growth of the San Francisco Bay Area. The BASS model is composed of three distinct sub models: an employment and population projection sub model the output of which is fed into two other sub models that allocate projected population, employment, holding, and land development among various subareas of the region. The key determined of estimated future land use and development in the BASS model is the time required to travel from place of employment to alternate places of residence.