Analysis and Interpretation of
Traffic Studies
Prof. Anuj Jaiswal, PhD
Dept. of Architecture & Planning
INTRODUCTION
In a transportation study, it is often necessary to know the exact
origin and destination of the trips. The information yielded by O-D
survey includes land-use of the zones of origin and destination,
household characteristics of the trip making family, time of the day
when journeys are made, trip purpose and mode of travel.
Origin is defined as the place where the trip begins and destination is
defined as the place where the trip ends.
Origin-Destination (OD) studies are an important tool for
transportation Professionals. OD studies are conducted to understand
the pattern of the movement of Persons and goods in a particular area
of interest during a particular period of time (Wang, 1997).
O & D SURVEY
The origin and destination study is carried out mainly to know the
origin and destination of various trips .
In this study the data collected are, mode of travel, their origin and
destination, number of passengers in each vehicle, route etc.
Landuse of the zone of origin and Destination
Household characteristics of the trip making facilities
Time of the day when the journey are made
Trip purpose and mode of travel
USE OF O & D SURVEY
To establish preferential routes for various categories of vehicles
To location of new proposed roads
To location of parking palaces
To locate expressway/Bypasses
To regulate movement of heavy vehicles
To locate new bridge as per traffic demands
To know the flow of traffic in an urban area
•To determine the amount of by passable traffic that enters in the city
• To development trip generation and trip distribution models in
transportation planning process
TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT PLAN-BHILWARA
ORIGIN DESTINATION SURVEY
LOCATION : NAME OF SURVEYOR :
DIRECTIO
FROM TO
N:
TYPE OF
TRAVEL TRAVEL PURPOS FREQUE WILLINGNESS TO COST
S.NO MODE TIME ORIGIN DESTINATION DIST (km) OCPY COMMODIT
TIME COST E NCY SHIFT PAYABLE
Y
9.300
1 2 2 11 20 15 7 1 2 2 PARI YES 15
am
2 1 5 6 15 15 4 2 3
3 2 8 5 20 48 3 2 1
4 3 6 9 35 47 2 3 2
5 4 2 25 14 15 8 1
6 1 1 14 6 22 9 2
7 2 4 1 9 42 12 1
8 4 3 6 28 56 14 3
9 1 24 5 7 25 16 2
3 12 5
1 8 6 5
2 2
LEGENDS
PURPOSE: WORK-W, RECREATIONAL-R, EDUCATIONAL-E, SHOPPING-S, SOCIAL-SO.
MODE: BICYCLE-0,CAR-1, TWO WHEELER-2, AUTO-3,SLOW GOODS-4,MAGIC-5,LCV-6
TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT PLAN-BHILWARA
ORIGIN DESTINATION SURVEY: for Rural Road
LOCATION : NAME OF SURVEYOR :
DIRECTION: FROM TO
FREQUE Type of WILLINGNESS COST
TRAVEL TRAVEL DIST PURPOSE
S.NO MODE TIME ORIGIN DESTINATION NCY commodi Tonnage TO use PAYABLE
TIME COST (km)
ty
9.30
1 2 2 11 20 15 7 1 2 2 PARI YES 15
am
2 1 5 6 15 15 4 3 Y 10
3 2 8 5 20 48 3 1 N
4 3 6 9 35 45 24 2 Y 20
5 4 2 25 14 15 8 1
6 1 1 14 6 22 9 2
7 2 4 1 9 42 12 1
8 4 3 6 28 56 14 3
9 1 24 5 7 25 16 2
3 12 5
1 8 5
2
LEGENDS
PURPOSE: WORK-W, RECREATIONAL-R, EDUCATIONAL-E, SHOPPING-S, SOCIAL-SO.
METHOD OF O & D SURVEY
ROAD SIDE INTERVIEW SURVEYS
HOME-INTERVIEW SURVEYS
TELEPHONE SURVEYS
TAXI SURVEYS
POST CARD QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS
REGISTRATION NUMBER SURVEY
TAG SURVEY
PUBLIC TRANSPORT SURVEY
COMMERCIAL VEHICAL SURVEY
ROAD SIDE INTERVIEW SURVEY
In this method interview stations are previously
decides on the roadway.
The vehicles are stopped at the interview stations by a
group of persons and the answers to prescribed
questionnaire are collected on the spot.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
• PLACE AND TIME OF ORIGIN
• PLACE AND TIME OF DESTINATION
• ROUTE
• PURPOSE OF THE TRIP
• TYPES OF VEHICLES
• NUMBER OF PASSENGERS IN EACH VEHICLE
URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM PLANNING
• Trip generation (TG)
• Trip distribution (TD)
• Modal choice (MC)
• Traffic Assignment (TA)
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