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Transport Demand and Planning

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While the gross national products in the industrialised countries have increased by 4 per cent a year since the 1950s, industrial production by 6 per cent and world trade by 8 per cent, most traffic volumes have increased even more. Thus a very important point in intercity transport planning is the forecasting of future traffic volumes. In the following we shall first describe simple forecasting models, using the method of extrapolation.1

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Rallis, T. (1977). Transport Demand and Planning. In: Intercity Transport. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02923-5_5

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