Capacity Expansion in the Twin Cities: The Roads-Transit Balance

Davis, Gary A.
Sanderson, Kate
Tao, HunWen
2006-12
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Capacity Expansion in the Twin Cities: The Roads-Transit Balance

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2006-12

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"What would it take to build our way out of congestion in the Twin Cities?" was the question posed by researchers five years ago. This previous study solved a roads-only network design problem (NDP) for the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Building on that work, another network design problem is examined for the Twin Cities metropolitan area of 3 million, to examine the tradeoff between demand side reductions and the limited access capacity expansion necessary to achieve desired levels of service. The problem is simplified by pre-determining a mode split, which allows for incorporating decreasing demand directly as an input rather than in the model formulation. The problem is solved using Sequential Linear Expansion (SLIE), a modified method of successive averages (MSA). Computation time for the large network is decreased to a reasonable length using another modification, the MSA with decreasing re-initialization (MSADR). A typical personal computer can solve this large-sized problem within 24 hours. For forecasted travel demand for 2030, it was found that if the number of trips were reduced by 20%, lanemiles needed to achieve LOS D decreases by up to 43%.

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Davis, Gary A.; Sanderson, Kate; Tao, HunWen. (2006). Capacity Expansion in the Twin Cities: The Roads-Transit Balance. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/151685.

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