TR News 345: Peaks and Valleys: Forecasting Recreational Travel Demand

National and state parks welcome millions of visitors annually, but seasonal surges can jam roads and overcrowd facilities. A TRB National Highway Cooperative Research Program project is harnessing smartphone data to develop recreational travel-demand models aimed at helping public lands transportation planners better forecast and manage congestion.

"Peaks and Valleys: Forecasting Recreational Travel Demand," by Mark Bradley, Greg Spitz, Aaron Lee, Ben Swanson, and Theodore Mansfield is one of the feature articles in the May-June 2023 edition (Issue 345) of TR News, TRB's magazine.

TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation community and research pays off articles, profiles of transportation professionals, workshop and conference announcements, new book notices, and news of TRB activities. Submissions of manuscripts for possible publication are accepted at any time. 

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