SOCIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP OF TRAFFIC TO POPULATION AND DISTANCE

Abstract

The article examines the sociological impacts on theoretical framework for making traffic estimates. The problem of traffic between cities is part of the more general sociological field of human interaction over distance. Traffic surveys and origin and destination studies are examined. The author found the very few of these surveys and studies are designed so as to include some of the sociological factors that influence traffic. Traffic is analyzed by trips. The article includes a study of the effects of sociological factors such as population size, distance, and population characteristics on the frequency of trips.