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Integrated transportation scenario planning.

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    University of Utah. Metropolitan Research Center
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration. Surface Transportation Environment and Planning Cooperative Research Program
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    FHWA-HEP-10-034
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    Regional land use‐transportation scenario planning emerged as a planning technique in U.S.

    metropolitan areas in the 1990s. Building on prior work by this research team, this study continues

    to track the development and expansion of regional scenario planning, using 28 projects

    completed between 2003 and 2010. These projects demonstrate the continued popularity of

    scenario planning techniques when used to articulate and evaluate compact alternatives for

    future growth. The research team used hierarchical multivariate modeling to evaluate 107

    scenarios, demonstrating important associations between land use and transportation variables

    and vehicle travel demand. Coefficients from this analysis suggest that a shift to compact

    development—increasing average regional density by 50 percent by 2050, emphasizing infill,

    mixing land uses, and increasing the price of automobile use‐‐could result in 25% fewer VMT

    compared to amounts projected under trend conditions. The projects also demonstrate

    important methods for effectively integrating scenario techniques into traditional long‐range

    regional transportation planning processes.

    These important advances in regional scenario practice are hampered, to some degree, by

    continued limitations in the ability of travel demand models to evaluate the impacts of land

    use‐based strategies. Another limitation is the failure by project sponsors to incorporate

    important changes in global economic and environmental conditions, such as climate change

    and peak oil, both as input variables and as evaluation metrics.

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