joecastiglione
commented
11 months ago Agency Comments:
ODOT: this should be linked with the air passenger model concept.
MTC: See 16
Ohio: 3 types of visitors should be accommodated: People who travel to the region and stay, People who started their day in the region and left, and people who came into the region and left all in the same day (see item 3). For the first 2, they should end/begin their day at either a hotel or a residence and should begin/end their day at an external or an airport. Visitors should be separated by purpose: business, leisure, medical, and possibly others (see Ohio's LDT survey). They can then be added as a separate list of HHs that are run through the DAP model. Business travelers have an assigned work location and have a mandatory activity pattern. Leisure travelers have a non-mandatory pattern. Destination choice models should have binomial fields in them to attract leisure travelers to special generators (e.g. GGB), and to generate more eating out tours (especially if their "home zone" is a hotel).
Some regions have a significant amount of visitor travel. In these regions, there may be value in explicitly representing the travel of visitors, who have quite different behavior than regional residents in terms of trip purpose, travel party size, mode of travel, and value of time. However, visitor travel markets may be quite unique to each individual region, and the data required to build explicit models of traveler behavior is usually quite limited. Ideally, any treatment of visitor model should parallel the disaggregate representation of regional resident travel.