ABSTRACT
The travel demand in Thiruvananthapuram city is continuously growing due to its employment in
software sector, higher education and commercial activities. With intense developments in residential use
and work centres spread over the city of Thiruvananthapuram there has been steep rise in mobility pattern
of the people, putting the transport infrastructure of the city to great stress. Despite these prevailing
problem, effort to make an empirical study on the city’s urban transportation is significant. This paper
attempts to develop a home-based trip generation model to examine the factors influencing the trip
generation rate in the study area. A mathematical model is developed and the results show that trip
generation rate is highly dependent on the employment status of the people.