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Evaluating traffic impacts of urban development is a regular and routine exercise of transportation planningx000D
agencies. Because of the incremental development processes in urban planning, it is sometimes impractical tox000D
employ regional land use and transportation interaction models to evaluate impacts of individual developmentsx000D
on the urban transportation system. So, a common practice is to use a 'Trip Generation Manual' to quicklyx000D
evaluate traffic impacts of any individual development in urban centres. Such a manual provides a simplifiedx000D
table of approximate changes in an aggregate number of trips (one-way movement from one location tox000D
another) that may be induced by the specific type of development (e.g., residential building, commercialx000D
building, shopping malls, hospital etc.). The widely used manual for such trip generation is developed byx000D
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITS) based on development histories in the US. Two major drawbacks ofx000D
using this manual in Canada are:x000D
-The approximate traffic impacts depicted by the manual as trip generation rates may not necessarily representx000D
Canadian urban contexts.x000D
-It does not consider the local contexts, such as, transit accessibility, urban form, socio-economic conditions,x000D
etc., that may vary from urban area to urban area even within Canada.x000D
So, the use of the ITE trip generation manual is leading to erroneous and often misleading results of trafficx000D
impact evaluations in Canadian urban centres. This research will take the Greater Toronto Area as the studyx000D
area and develop a statistical model of traffic impacts (in terms of trip generation by different modes) at variousx000D
parts of the study area. The model will take the local context of urban centres in terms of detailed land usex000D
attributes and transit accessibility related variables to explain the impacts of traffic demand in terms of changesx000D
in trip generation corresponding to various categories of urban development. The developed model willx000D
showcase the use of a region-specific model as opposed to the naïve practice of using trip generation