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7 1.1 Purpose This guidebook is designed to help transportation and community planners account more effectively for pedestrian and bicycle activity (demand) in plans and projects.
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8planning. Because of their spatial aggregation into TAZs, these models lack the fine granularity necessary to capture the essence of non-motorized travel choice factors.
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9 Figure 1-1. Location of employment activity in Arlington County.
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10 facilities for non-motorized travel, and good regional accessibility afforded by transit have much more efficient travel patterns. Households of similar size and similar economic status in such compact, mixed-use areas own fewer cars and make fewer and shorter trips by car than households in suburban, auto-dependent subdivisions.
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11 aggregate methods employed in activity/tour-based modeling, which brings the choice to the level of the individual and articulates land use and network relationships at the parcel level of detail. Accessibilities are computed using the actual networks.
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12 1.5 How to Use the Guidebook Users will benefit most from this guidebook if they take time to become familiar with the overall content and organization, beginning with the accessibility concepts highlighted in this chapter. The guidebook is more than a set of tools and instructions on how to use them: it provides an understanding of the key relationships, how they affect non-motorized travel behavior, and how these tools can be used to do a better job of including such information in the analysis.
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