Transport Demand and Planning

  • Tom Rallis
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Abstract

While the gross national products in the industrialised countries have increased by 4 per cent a year since the 1950s, industrial production by 6 per cent and world trade by 8 per cent, most traffic volumes have increased even more. Thus a very important point in intercity transport planning is the forecasting of future traffic volumes. In the following we shall first describe simple forecasting models, using the method of extrapolation.1

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Tom Rallis
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  1. 1.Technical University of DenmarkCopenhagenDenmark

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