Broward County Year 2010 Plan Update Model Validation

Keywords

FSUTMS, Model validation methodology, Broward County Year 2010 transportation plan, Travel demand modeling, Calibration using field data

Abstract

Transportation Planning studies have been conducted in a large number of urban areas throughout the world during the past 25 years. A process for conducting these studies has developed, and is still evolving, which attempts to provide a systematic method for solving urban transportation problems. The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1962 requires any metropolitan areas of 50,000 or more population to have a long-range transportation plan to meet future travel demand. The Broward County Year 2010 Plan Update is designed to upgrade the existing transportation network in Broward County to meet travel demand in the area by the year 2010. The Florida Standard Urban Transportation Model Structure (FSUTMS) was used in the Plan Update. This technical report documents the model validation effort performed during that process. In this effort, the FSUTMS model was validated against a set of data derived from local travel studies, model documentation, research reports, field data and available information. The original purpose of model validation is to demonstrate the effective use of the model in developing potential long-range transportation improvement strategies in the Broward County area.

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Graduation Date

1989

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Leftwich, D. Scot

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering

Department

Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Format

Print

Pages

128 pages

Language

English

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Identifier

DP0026625

Subjects

Dissertations; Academic -- Engineering; Engineering -- Dissertations; Academic; Urban transportation--Planning--Mathematical models; Urban transportation--Computer simulation; Urban transportation--Planning--Evaluation; Urban transportation--Planning--Data processing; Urban transportation--Forecasting

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