Visitor Travel Demand Model

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Some regions have a significant amount of visitor travel. In these regions, there may be value in explicitly representing the travel of visitors, who have quite different behavior than regional residents in terms of trip purpose, travel party size, mode of travel, and value of time. However, visitor travel markets may be quite unique to each individual region, and the data required to build explicit models of traveler behavior is usually quite limited. Ideally, any treatment of visitor model should parallel the disaggregate representation of regional resident travel.