forecasting activity

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• forecasting — Making projections about future performance on the basis of historical and current conditions data. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * forecast forecast 2 verb forecast PTandPP or …   Financial and business terms

• Land use forecasting — undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area. In practice, land use models are demand driven, using as inputs the aggregate information on growth produced by an aggregate economic… …   Wikipedia

• economic forecasting — Prediction of future economic activity and developments. Economic forecasts, which range from a few weeks to many years, are widely used in business and government to help formulate policy and strategy. Macroeconomic forecasts predict the course… …   Universalium

• weather forecasting — Prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics and meteorology. Weather forecasting predicts atmospheric phenomena and changes on the Earth s surface caused by atmospheric conditions (snow and ice cover, storm tides,… …   Universalium

• Prediction of volcanic activity — (also: volcanic eruption forecasting ) is an interdisciplinary scientific and engineering approach to natural catastrophic event forecasting. Volcanic activity prediction has not been perfected, but significant progress has been made in recent… …   Wikipedia

• Transportation forecasting — is the process of estimating the number of vehicles or travelers that will use a specific transportation facility in the future. A forecast estimates, for instance, the number of vehicles on a planned freeway or bridge, the ridership on a railway …   Wikipedia

• Technology forecasting — is forecasting the future characteristics of useful technological machines, procedures or .Important aspectsPrimarily, a technological forecast deals with the characteristics of technology, such as levels of technical performance, like speed of a …   Wikipedia

• Demand forecasting — is the activity of estimating the quantity of a product or service that consumers will purchase. Demand forecasting involves techniques including both informal methods, such as educated guesses, and quantitative methods, such as the use of… …   Wikipedia

• Tropical cyclone track forecasting — involves predicting where a tropical cyclone is going to track over the next five days, every 6 to 12 hours. The history of tropical cyclone track forecasting has evolved from a single station approach to a comprehensive approach which uses a… …   Wikipedia

• economic forecasting — UK US noun [U] ► ECONOMICS the activity of making economic forecasts: »As with all economic forecasting, there is no magic formula that automatically calculates the impact of changes in oil prices. »an economic forecasting firm …   Financial and business terms

• financial forecasting — UK US noun [U] FINANCE ► the activity of deciding what a company s financial position is likely to be in the future, for example what its costs, income, and profits will be: »Insurers make provisions in their financial forecasting for abnormal… …   Financial and business terms