Mega-Regional Travel

This project will work toward a multi-disciplinary, multi-modal, multi-level modeling system for the nation's operative regions for global economic competition. The analysis focuses on a critical, overarching, complex, and vexing aspect of transportation policy decisions: how the cost and the pricing of different regional transportation investments affects travel performance in the large mega-region. The project will conduct a number of transportation pricing experiments and examine how changes in prices affect travel behavior, land use, economic growth, residential energy consumption, and regional environmental impacts.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Exploratory Advanced Research

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  1173 Glenn Martin Hall
  College Park, MD  United States  20742
• Start Date: 20130702
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120228
• Source Data: RiP Project 34580

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Decision making; Economic growth; Multimodal transportation; Policy analysis; Regional transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Megaregions
• Subject Areas: Energy; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01485570
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Jul 3 2013 1:00AM