Texas urban triangle : creating a spatial decision support system for mobility policy and investments that shape the sustainable growth of Texas.

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• Creators:
  Neuman, Michael ; Bright, Elise ; Morgan, Curtis
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Urban transportation
  • City planning
  • Mobility
  • Urban transportation--Texas--Planning
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UTCM 09-30-10
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Final report; 2/1/09¿5/31/10.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  This project developed a GIS-based Spatial Decision Support System to help local, metropolitan, and state ; jurisdictions and authorities in Texas understand the implications of transportation planning and ; investment decisions, and plan appropriately for the future. It provides an easily accessible, graphically ; represented, interactive database on infrastructural, demographic, environmental, agricultural, economic, ; hazard, and land use factors that affect transportation corridor location decisions. Specifically, the project ; team created an Internet-based spatial decision support system that will allow users to identify and ; visualize geographically those critical issues related to locating single mode or multi-modal surface ; transportation corridors for freight and passengers. Decision makers will be able to test multiple attributes ; in the decision making model to compare multiple transportation corridor scenarios for optimal mobility ; based on the decision parameters developed in the model. Jurisdictions and transportation authorities will ; use this tool to guide future decisions on transportation and its impacts on urban growth in a sustainable ; manner so that the need for economic development is balanced with environmental protection and human ; health, safety, and welfare. The system also helps address important research questions related to where ; future growth will occur in the Texas Urban Triangle, and at what scale, densities, and uses and to study ; selected impacts of this growth. Finally, the SDSS demonstrates the usefulness of WebGIS in facilitating ; sustainable transportation planning, policy making and investment decisions.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT06-G-0044
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18386/dot_18386_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.51 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b1dfb0ef0f8f6b7740d591e55aafeee6c1b5dd34479508cc46288fb4fa64021b