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A general theory of traffic movement

The 1955 ITE past presidents’ award paper

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  1. The research on this type of trip has been very limited and quite unproductive mainly because of the many variables involved.

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  • Voorhees, A.M., Sharpe, G.B., Stegmaier, J.T.: Shopping habits and travel patterns. Special report 11-B, Highway Research Board, Washington DC (1955)

  • Voorhees, A.M.: Basic characteristics of work trips. Thesis, Bureau of Highway Traffic, Yale University, May (1955)

  • Wynn, F.H.: Intra-city traffic movements. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Highway Research Board, Washington DC (1955)

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This paper, which has been re-published with the kind permission of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, was chosen by Martin Richards as a tribute to Al Voorhees, his mentor and friend, who died in 2005. In republishing it, Martin has made a few changes to the text, correcting apparent minor errors in the original and recognising changes in society since the paper was written.

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Voorhees, A.M. A general theory of traffic movement. Transportation 40, 1105–1116 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-013-9487-0

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