Trip Attraction Development Statistical Model in Dohuk City Residential Area

Abstract

ABSTRACTIn this study, trip attraction phenomenon has been studied for 20residential out of 28 traffic zones located within Dohuk city urban area composedof more than 300,000 in residents. Home-interview travel data provided for thecity are used in addition to special data collected to perform the trip attractionanalysis .Attraction trips are classified into seven types and selected as dependentvariables while other variables like number of dwelling units, employment,....etc.,are selected as independent variables in the SPSS package to obtain the moststatistically well accepted predicted attraction trip models. Some models likeHBW trips is constant eliminated with good (R2) value. HBSH and HBOH tripsare showing weak correlation with their independent variables like amount ofCBD area and number of retail sales located within CBD area.Key Word: Trip Attraction