Transport system analysis – demand and planning

• Summarise the role of demand analysis and modelling in the planning of transport systems
• Explain the principles behind the four-stage model and the basic stages
• Discuss and model generation of travel
• Discuss and model distribution of travel
• Model travel mode choice using logit and nested logit models
• Discuss and model route choice and assignment
• Apply a demand model for transport analysis
• Apply cost-benefit analysis to simple transport cases
• Validate a model and use it for forecasting
• Use software for data management, data analysis, and model application
• Produce a written demand analysis, that describes data, modelling, and results

The course covers quantitative methods that can be used to solve problems within transport planning and transport modelling. The course focuses on statistical methods, especially regression and discrete choice models. Other methods that are covered are iterative proportional fitting, gravitation models, and simulation.

02323/02402/02403, or similar statistics course

Lectures and exercise classes, reading the literature, and problem solving.