3.2 Development of Trip Production and Attraction Models
As part of the development of the Miasma Beach Transportation Model, an extensive home interview survey was completed. Travel diaries were collected for all members of approximately 1000 households in the six internal zones. Furthermore, an extensive Cordon Survey was conducted to develop estimates of traffic entering and exiting the study area at the defined external stations. Preliminary analysis of the travel diaries LED to the estimation of population-level trip productions and attractions for the study area. Total trips were segmented into three conventional categories:
- HBW -- Home Based Work trips
- HBO -- Home Based Other trips, and
- NHB -- Non-Home Based trips
A total of 60,000 daily person trips were generated by Miasma Beach residents in the base year (2004); Table 3 presents base year trip productions and attractions. Overall, these trips were found to be split 20 percent HBW, 50 percent HBO, and 30 percent NHB. It's believed that these trip types are fundamentally different based on s






