Title
A Windowed Transportation Planning Model
Publisher
Transportation Research Board
Abstract
This research develops and applies a transportation planning model that integrates regional and local area forecasting approaches. While regional models have the scope to model the interaction of demand and congestion, they lack the spatial detail of a local approach. Local approaches typically do not consider the feedback between new project traffic and existing levels of traffic. Using a window, which retains the regional trip distribution information and the consistency between travel demand and congestion, allows the use of a complete transportation network and block level traffic zones while retaining computational feasibility. By combining the two methods, a number of important policy issues can be addressed, including the implications of traffic calming, changes in flow due to alternative traffic operation schemes, the influence of micro-scale zoning changes on nearby intersections, the impact of TDM on traffic congestion, and the consequences of a suburban light rail line.
Identifiers
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1607-07
Previously Published Citation
Levinson, David and Yuanlin Huang (1997) A Windowed Transportation Planning Model. Transportation Research Record 1607 45-54.
Description
This research develops and applies a transportation planning model that integrates regional and local area forecasting approaches. While regional models have the scope to model the interaction of demand and congestion, they lack the spatial detail of a local approach. Local approaches typically do not consider the feedback between new project traffic and existing levels of traffic. Using a window, which retains the regional trip distribution information and the consistency between travel demand and congestion, allows the use of a complete transportation network and block level traffic zones while retaining computational feasibility. By combining the two methods, a number of important policy issues can be addressed, including the implications of traffic calming, changes in flow due to alternative traffic operation schemes, the influence of micro-scale zoning changes on nearby intersections, the impact of TDM on traffic congestion, and the consequences of a suburban light rail line.
Funding information
MNCPPC - Montgomery County Planning Department
Suggested Citation
Levinson, David M; Huang, Yuanlin.
(1997).
A Windowed Transportation Planning Model.
Transportation Research Board.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/179856.