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This portion of the book is almost exclusively devoted to a single model and its applications. In U.S. planning practice the empiric model, beginning with work done by the Traffic Research Corporation for the Boston Regional Planning Project in 1963 and continuing through the early 1970’s, has been the single most widely applied urban land use model. Its success, despite the barrage of criticism which has been leveled at it (as described in the following pages) is due in no small measure to its robustness in terms of its fit to base year data, and to the concerted development and sales efforts of its progenitors and their successors (T.R.C. and Peat Marwick Mitchell respectively).
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This rather elusive document was titled ‘Review and Evaluation of the Work Undertaken by Traffic Research Corporation for the Boston Regional Planning Project’, and apparently received very limited circulation. It contains a scathing review of the TRC work which, while quite gratuitous in some ways, contains some very telling comments regarding urban model work in general.
This is also true for much larger regions as well and is discussed in the author’s monograph An Empirical Model of Regional Growth, Monograph Series Number Six, Regional Science Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 33–39, 179–180, 1975.
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Hill, D. M., D. Brand, and W. B. Hansen, ‘Prototype development of statistical land use model for Greater Boston region’, Highway Research Record, no. 114, pp. 51–70, 1966.
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Putman, S.H. (1979). Empiric model applications. In: Urban residential location models. Studies in applied regional science, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9239-9_2
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