FORECASTING TRAFFIC COUNTS FOR HIGH TOURISM AREAS: WATAUGA COUNTY CASE STUDY

摘要

This paper describes a transportation planning case study of Watauga County in North Carolina, a high tourism area. The case study included a structured interview of local residents, traffic counts, and an evaluation of housing occupancy. Future work will include an implementation strategy for interpreting traffic counts in high tourism areas to aid in the development of Comprehensive Transportation Plans. Because of the high variability of traffic counts in high tourism areas, it is unreasonable to apply the typical weekday traffic count (annual average daily traffic) as the baseline metric for developing the Comprehensive Transportation Plans for these areas.