• VIRAJ DESHMUKH
• DR. L. B. ZALA

Travel Demand Forecasting is the attempt of estimating the number of vehicles or people that will use a specific transportation facility in the future. Traffic forecasting begins with the collection of data on current traffic. This traffic data is combined with other known data, such as population, employment, trip rates, travel costs, etc., to develop a traffic demand model for the current situation. High growth of household residents in urban areas developed into a big problem like congestion, delay, over-crowded links, bottlenecks, etc. In this study, the roads of vadodara city is been selected on which the traffic assignment analysis is going to be done. The study falls under Transportation Planning process. Then the O-D matrix is generated using the Travel survey data sheet using TransCAD software. Creating a Network by providing it all the required attributes fields like speed, distance, no. of lanes, no. of physical stops (Nodes) it contains, vehicle volume count, etc. Then by using the BPR method as a default method the results from Users Equilibrium (UE) and System Optimum (SO) assignment methods are compared, the present V/C ratio is inventoried along with the vehicle operating cost (voc) and similarly the future demand of trips are estimated and the effect of calculated future V/C and voc is studies over each selected link of city. It is assumed that the traffic volume count will be same after 10 and 5 years only the growth is in no. of trips O-D matrix. It is widely accepted that path choice of a trip is dependent on trip characteristics, network attributes, and a travellers personal characteristics. The best known network variables that influence route choice are travel distance, travel cost and travel time. This research attempts to study the influence of other network variables, namely no. of lanes, no. of intersections, and roadway condition and classification on route choice over the present as well as future stage.

Travel Demand Forecasting; Traffic Assignment; Household Survey

"Comprehensive Traffic Assignment Analysis using Users Equilibrium & System Optimum: A Case Study of Vadodara City", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.233-249, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904P38.pdf

"Comprehensive Traffic Assignment Analysis using Users Equilibrium & System Optimum: A Case Study of Vadodara City", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp233-249, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904P38.pdf