Laser Enhancement Project
Table of contents
- Front cover
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Modelling approach and zoning
- pproach
- 2.2 Main data sources
- 2.3 Running the model through t ime
- 2.4 The zoning system
- 3. Land use model
- odel
- 3.2 Representing industries
- 3.3 Industries' demand for the employed workers and employed residents
- 3.4 Household formation and exogenous households
- 3.5 Housing demand model developed in Orbit
- 3.6 Private trip making
- 3.7 Employers' business travel
- 4. Strategic Transport Model
- odel
- egmentation
- odes
- 4.4 Highway networks
- 4.5 Rail and underground networks from Orbit
- 4.6 Modal split and network assignment calibration
- 4.7 Results from the 1991 modal choice model
- 4.8 External demand matrices from Orbit
- 5. M odel validation for 1991 and 1997
- 5.1 Introduction
- odel
- odel
- 6. Conclusions
- 6.1 Recommendations for further development
- 6.2 Assessment and conclusions
- 7. Bibliography
- 8. Glossary
- Appendix 1 : LASER Enhancement Project and its relationship with ORBIT, SERAS and LOIS
- A1.1 Tasks defined within the LASER Enhancement Project
- A1.2 ORBIT model development work that fed LASER 3.0
- A1.3 SERAS and LOIS
- Appendix 2: List of LASER 3.0 Model Zones
- Appendix 3: Modal split calibration - use of data sources
- A3.1 The LATS data
- A3.2 The NTS Data

