Travel Patterns
To gain insight into travel patterns around Fort Worth, the analysis examined “desire lines”—the direct links between where trips begin and end. These desire lines reveal the most common connections within, to, and from the city, highlighting key travel demands. By iden- tifying these natural movement patterns, transportation improve- ments target high-demand connections, making trips smoother and more comfortable. North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) origin-des- tination (OD) data by traffic analysis zone (TAZ) for trips made during the 2023 AM period were utilized in this analysis. Transportation analysis zones within the NCTCOG dataset range from a land area of approximately one square block in downtown areas to more than 50 square miles in suburban and rural areas. As a result, some key activity centers such as downtown Forth Worth are comprised of more than 50 TAZs while the DFW Airport is made up of less than 30 TAZs and Texas Christian University (TCU) encompasses only five TAZs. To avoid obscuring key travel patterns due to this wide range in land area, NCTCOG TAZ data within the 2010 Urbanized Area was aggregated into analysis districts based on existing transportation barriers such as interstates and water bodies as well as similar land use. This aggregation simplifies the travel pattern analysis from considering over 5,000 individual TAZs to approximately 1,000 analysis districts. The following sections summarize the results of three travel pattern analyses: 1. Within Fort Worth : Trips beginning and ending within Fort Worth 2. From Fort Worth : Trips beginning in Fort Worth and ending
outside Fort Worth 3. To Fort Worth : Trips beginning outside Forth Worth and ending within Fort Worth. WITHIN FORT WORTH TRAVEL PATTERN Figure 02-28 depicts three types of travel patterns for the 151 anal- ysis districts within the City of Fort Worth: • Intra-District Trips : Total trips starting and ending within the given district (represented by a point with radius and color proportional to the total number of trips) • Inter-District Trips : Total trips connecting any two districts regardless of trip direction (represented by a line connecting the given districts with line thickness and color proportional to the total number of trips). For visual simplicity, inter-district trips are only visualized if the total trips between the two analysis districts exceed 250 trips. • Trip Activity Density: Total trip origins and destinations per square mile including both intra- and inter-district trips (repre- sented by analysis district shading). In general, most travel within Fort Worth during the AM period is located to the west or northeast of Downtown with relatively few trips on the eastern side of the city. Top inter-district trips are typi- cally between adjacent analysis districts with the exception of trips to Downtown where there is a greater prevalence of high trip volumes from both adjacent and further away analysis districts. Areas within the City of Fort Worth with significant trip activity and strong travel patterns to several analysis districts include, from north to south:
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