Trip Generation: The Initial Stage of Urban Transportation Planning

Urban transportation planning system depends on travel demand modeling. Travel demand modeling is a systematic process for developing regional transportation planning. In today’s era, Transportation is a basic need of every person. With Start of every day, every person generates “Trip� from one place to another using different mode of travel and having specified travel time. Transportation means transfer of person or goods from origin to destination points. There is tremendous increase in traffic on roads, which is the key reason behind increase in trip generation rate. In India, on every road there is a problem of conflicting movements and traffic at intersections as well as on major routes. The increase in personalized vehicles rate leads to generation of more trips. Trip generation rate depends on various factors like vehicle ownership, age, and income of person, education, purpose of trip and many more. Here, in this paper Authors had studied the case study of Anand region, to understand the types of trip generation rate, factors affecting trip generation and future forecasting of trip generation for studied area.