Citation

Rutherford GS. Transp. Res. Rec. 1979; 728: 53-59.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences USA, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

Knowledge of pedestrian travel behavior is very important to attempts to improve congestion problems in central business districts. This paper describes the results of the use of a traditional gravity model for predicting pedestrian trip distribution. The model is calibrated by using a data set from downtown Chicago. The results indicate that the traditional gravity model closely reproduces the characteristics of pedestrian trip distribution and might be a useful tool in the analysis of downtown travel.