Emissions Benefits of Land Use Planning Strategies

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• Corporate Creators:
  Louis Berger, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Air Quality Exhaust Gases Land Use Land Use Planning Travel Behavior Travel Demand
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-TOPR-29
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration sponsored a study of the methods currently employed to quantify mobile source emissions benefits from land use changes. The study contains reviews of 46 relevant literature items; 10 case studies from around the country describing applied methods; state-of-the-practice and advanced practice methods; and recommendations for future technical and procedural improvements. The Research Team found that a variety of studies and applications have been performed by a relatively few number of researchers and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). Rather than pursuing this work as part of a conformity determination, many of these exercises have been accomplished as part of a community "visioning" process undertaken by local governments. The research that has been done has identified relationships between vehicle miles of travel, trip frequency, trip length, and mode choice. Also, a number of problems with the research have been noted, including consistency in data development, availability of data, subjectivity in measurement, shortcomings in existing modeling techniques, difficulty in assigning causation, and cross-correlation between independent variables. The paper concludes with recommendations and ideas for future research to improve land use, travel demand and emissions models; and support pathways of the dissemination of information among end-user communities. Appendices and the accompanying CD-ROM contain data resources, case studies, and a summary of elasticity applications.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFH61-98-D-00105
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:466fd72c9e894256aed02cbf28589ea9fa213727881b0cc0b1b89e04c9006125a59e4dbd8b9a305b367984e3b1bb80114527c7497c350629dab76b518ace0fcd
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92906/dot_92906_DS1.pdf
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