Fuel Consumption Monitoring for Travel Demand Modeling

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of fuel consumption patterns on travel demand estimation. This paper evaluates and calibrates travel demand estimation by CUBE software and its relation to fuel consumption, with use of data provided by Sharif University, for the city of Shiraz, Iran in 1999. This research proves the presence strong correlations between vehicle fuel use and the trip's generation process by exogenous and endogenous variables. The effect of energy consumption patterns on generation and distribution stage of travel demand modeling based on inverse ability has been considered in the present model.