ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a variety of techniques for collecting and analyzing land use and transport data. Transportation is an important land use itself; rights-of-way, parking space, and terminals occupy from ten percent and thirty percent or urban land. Data are very important to analysis of urban land use and transport; several sources are available. Land use inventories compiled from surveys or aerial photographs, provide an accurate description of land use patterns. Origin-Destination (O-D) surveys can provide information that is useful in transportation planning; however, accurate O-D surveys are difficult to conduct. Density tables may indicate severe residential overcrowding or zones in need of additional commercial or transport areas. A number of sophisticated urban transportation planning models have been developed to forecast future travel patterns and evaluate alternative transportation plans. Transportation planning models can be used to evaluate proposed transport interventions.
