Integrated Land-Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling: Complex Systems Approaches and Advanced Policy Applications, Phase 2

This project develops, evaluates, calibrates, and validates combinations of integrated frameworks for agent-based land use and transportation models using Chittenden County as a test-bed. The project proposes to implement UrbanSim with TRANSIMS for Chittenden County and to integrate the two models together with an activity model developed by partners at RSG Inc. Future conditions shall be simulated based on alternative scenarios generated in stakeholder meetings and ranging from changed land use policy constraints to construction of new infrastructure. The impacts of the transportation sector on mobile source air pollution will be conducted using data from Vermont UTC Signature Project #2. Researchers in other projects will be providing new model output metrics to consider land cover and carbon; storm water; impacts on plants and soils; network robustness; and commodity transportation. The researchers will develop code for processes to integrate these new output metrics into the combined model in a format that services the MPO context and models. The most important aspect of project B is evaluating which of the combined model architecture components are necessary for which set of regional planning and policy questions.

• Record URL:
  http://www.uvm.edu/trc/university-transportation-center/utc-current-project-list/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/research/trc_reports/UVM-TRC-14-005.pdf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $160034.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT06-G-0018

  024654

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Troy, Austin

  Aultman-Hall, Lisa

• Performing Organizations:

  UVM Transportation Center

  University of Vermont
  210 Colchester Avenue
  Burlington, VT  United States  05405
• Principal Investigators:

  Troy, Austin

• Start Date: 20070101
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20130531
• Source Data: RiP Project 26276

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Environmental impacts; Environmental policy; Land use planning; Mobile sources; Pollutants; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation modeling
• Geographic Terms: Chittenden County (Vermont)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01569187
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: UVM Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0018, 024654
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 2 2015 1:00AM