Transformational Changes and Revolutionary Advances for Transportation Planning

The vision of this research is to promote systematic cost-effective and coordinated approaches to acquiring and using data for long range transportation planning. The research is intended to generate, synthesize and transfer existing knowledge on a variety of source data. Specifically, the objectives are to: (1)Identify procedures to improve efficiency of data collection; (2) Identify institutional opportunities and impediments to exploiting IT-based data sources for transportation planning; (3) Generate guidance for building forecasting capacity using new approaches to integrating transportation data; (4) Generate decision methods and tools for use of developing and implementing data collection strategies; (5) Demonstrate an innovative forecasting application supported by significant improvements in data. This would be focused on a hypothetical disaster response planning problem; and (6) Identify future opportunities for building planning capacity based on new sources of transportation data.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $248113.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTFH61-10-C-00041

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Planning, Environment and Realty (HEP)
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Yoder, Supin

• Performing Organizations:

  Dowling Associates, Incorporated

  157 Pelham Road
  Philadelphia, PA  United States  19119
• Principal Investigators:

  Carroll, Michael

• Start Date: 20101101
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20111001
• Source Data: RiP Project 27796

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Decision making; Forecasting; Information technology; Long range planning; Technological innovations; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01463809
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-10-C-00041
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:30PM