Texas Urban Triangle: Creating a Spatial Decision Support System for Mobility Policy and Investments that Shape the Sustainable Growth of Texas
Record Type: UTC
This project develops 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 will provide 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 is creating 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 be able to 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 will also help 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 can demonstrate the usefulness of WebGIS in facilitating sustainable transportation planning, policy making and investment decisions.
Start date: 2009/2/1
End date: 2010/5/31
Status: Active
Contract/Grant Number: DTRT06-G-0044
Secondary Number: 00039
Total Dollars: 100000
Source Organization: University Transportation Center for Mobility
Date Added: 01/21/2009
Index Terms: Sustainable development, Mobility, Decision support systems, Economic growth, Transportation planning, Land use planning, Land use, Geographic information systems, Decision making, Texas, Research projects, Capital investments,
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University Transportation Center for Mobility
http://utcm.tamu.edu
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
USA
Phone: (979) 845-2538
Fax: (979) 845-9761
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Tooley, Melissa S
Phone: (979) 845-8545
Fax: (979) 845-9761
Email: m-tooley@tamu.edu
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Texas A&M University, College Station
http://archone.tamu.edu/College/
College of Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
3137 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3137
USA
Phone: (979) 845-1046
Fax: (979) 862-1724
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Neuman, Michael
Phone: (979) 845-7062
Email: Neuman@tamu.edu
Bright, Elise
Phone: (979) 862-2730
Email: ebright@tamu.edu
Morgan, Curtis
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