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WFRC outlines multi-year upgrade to regional travel model, plans activity-based approach by 2029
Summary
WFRC staff described a planned three-year project to integrate an activity-based model (ABM) into the Wasatch Front regional travel model, intended to improve trip-chaining representation, incorporate new data sources and support next regional transportation plan analysis.
Bert Granberg, WFRC analytics staff, briefed the Regional Growth Committee on a planned upgrade to the Wasatch Front regional travel model to incorporate an activity-based modeling (ABM) approach and related visualization tools.
Granberg summarized the model’s history and purpose, noting the region’s travel-model lineage dates to the 1960s and has been updated in stages to include transit modeling and integrated land-use forecasting. He said a recent peer-review recommended moving toward an activity-based approach and that the ABM integration would better represent how households…
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