Abstract:
Over the last forty years, a variety of operational models has been developed and applied in the field of
transportation and presently these models have become principal tools for strategic transportation
planning. Once scholars started to point out that existing and future land use pattern exerts major
impact on transportation and many of the issues prevailed in the cities at present occur due to the
ignorance of the linkages of transportation and land uses, impact from the land uses and its changes is
widely taken in to the transport modeling. Yet, lots of studies have shown there are shortcomings in the
effectiveness of the transport models. Robert Cervero stated that “Hampering coordination is the reality
that the benefits of careful transport-land use integration are often not evident until ten or more years in
the future”.
This paper examines the current status of the development of transportation modeling which considers
the impact of land uses and its changes, and identifies the future developments of such models which
are either likely or desirable. This paper reviews ten such models which are used widely in transport
planning in the means of data and data types used, surveying methods of such data, data modeling
methods, traffic assignment and travel forecasting methods, outputs generated, spatial techniques
involved and user interfaces in relation to accounting the impacts of land use. Further, this research is a
comparison study between different models in above means that finds out prospects and constraints of
each model. Finally the paper gives a summary for the future developers of transport models and paves
way to employ the prospects and to overcome the constraints of existing models in future models.
Citation:
de Silva, P.C.P., &; Bandara, J.M.S.J. (2011). Comparison of transport-land use models [Abstract]. In H.R. Pasindu (Ed.), Proceedings of the Transportation Research Forum 2011 (p. 45). Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa. https://uom.lk/sites/default/files/civil/files/TRF%202011_0.pdf