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Transport modelling and DaSTS: challenging times lie ahead

Delegates at the latest Transport Modelling Forum organised by LTT heard how Delivering a Sustainable Transport System has already begun to present the modelling community with a stiff new set of problems.

Rik Thomas
19 June 2009
The TEMPRO data set suggests that the demand for travel trips will rise by 18% between 2006 and 2031, due primarily to population growth, but with the growth in car trips easily outstripping public transport trips
The TEMPRO data set suggests that the demand for travel trips will rise by 18% between 2006 and 2031, due primarily to population growth, but with the growth in car trips easily outstripping public transport trips

 

Independent consultant Denvil Coombe has recently completed an as yet unpublished study for the DfT on the models that the English regions have at their disposal to help inform the development work that they are required to undertake as part of Delivering a Sustainable Transport System. And the news is not particularly good, as Coombe told the Transport Modelling Forum held in London last week. “DaSTS: Are our models and modellers up to it?” was the title of his presentation and the...

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