Abstract
Due to the high growth rate of urbanization in developing countries like Bangladesh leads to increase in vehicular traffic. Travel demand models are useful in managing the increased travel demand. So, Trip generation step is essential in planning of transportation facilities for Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh. In this study, the trip attraction rates of the shopping centers at Uttara Road, Uttara area of Dhaka are estimated by using trip rate analysis method. As part of this study, a total of six shopping centers are surveyed, for which the number of vehicles (car) and persons entering the shopping center during peak hour for every 15 minutes time interval are counted. The surveyed data deals with the relationship of trip attraction rates of the shopping center as a whole. Various physical features of the shopping centers are considered of this study, e.g total parking spaces, gross floor area, and the number of stores in the shopping center. This study will help for estimating the traffic volume of newly constructed shopping centers which has remarkable impact on the geometric design of roadways in the contiguous area.
Highlights
Rapid urbanization is one of the major problems for developing countries
It shows the average trip rates attracted by the each shopping center in weekday and weekends respectively and it is clearly depicted that all the shopping centers are attracting more number of trips in weekends
This study explores the trip attraction rates of shopping centers at Uttara areas in Dhaka
Summary
Rapid urbanization is one of the major problems for developing countries. Due to the rapid growth of urbanization coupled with the increase in demand for transportation services makes the travel supply remained unmatched to travel demand. Road pattern and length changes to accessibility needs of people and desire to reach their dimension. These situations insisted more on managing travel demand rather than increasing infrastructure. The first step of travel demand forecasting is the trip generation which includes trip production and trip attraction. Trip attraction is important to the traffic engineer and urban planner in considering the impact of new development such as office complex, shopping center and residential development. One of the most important factors for trip attraction is work trips. This study creates the comparative relation with the trip attraction rate of the shopping centers and the number of people coming to the shopping center per unit time
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