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Laser Enhancement Project

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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
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