Abstract
ABSTRACT
In this study, trip attraction phenomenon has been studied for 20
residential out of 28 traffic zones located within Dohuk city urban area composed
of more than 300,000 in residents. Home-interview travel data provided for the
city are used in addition to special data collected to perform the trip attraction
analysis .Attraction trips are classified into seven types and selected as dependent
variables while other variables like number of dwelling units, employment,....etc.,
are selected as independent variables in the SPSS package to obtain the most
statistically well accepted predicted attraction trip models. Some models like
HBW trips is constant eliminated with good (R2) value. HBSH and HBOH trips
are showing weak correlation with their independent variables like amount of
CBD area and number of retail sales located within CBD area.
Key Word: Trip Attraction
