Impacts of Connected Vehicles and Automated Vehicles on State and Local Transportation Agencies--Task-Order Support. Incorporating New Mobility Options into Travel Demand Forecasting and Modeling

Emerging transportation technologies and shared mobility services, or new mobility options (NMOs), are impacting travel behavior and demand. Examples include micromobility (bicycles and scooters), connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), transportation network companies (ride sourcing, hailing, and sharing), car sharing, and micro-transit. As these NMOs proliferate, transportation planners and decision-makers need to be able to understand how to harness positive and mitigate negative impacts. One of the primary tools available to understand potential impacts and future uncertainty are travel demand forecasting models (TDFMs). However, many of the current generation TDFMs do not explicitly include these NMOs. Concurrently, decision-makers are requesting insight into areas for which TDFMs were not originally designed, such as equity, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), for which NMOs are suggested to positively impact. As such, modelers at state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are presented with a number of challenges in incorporating NMOs into TDFMs and estimating their benefits. The objective of this research is to develop a practitioners’ guide for implementation of best practices for DOTs and MPOs looking to incorporate NMOs into TDFMs. The research will focus on the identification of key TDFM data, specifications, methods, and approaches related to travel behavior; the proclivity of travelers to adopt NMOs; and performance measures that estimate the benefits from deployment of NMOs.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4866

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $125000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-102(29)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Wadsworth, Trey

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Central Florida, Orlando

  12201 Research Parkway, Suite 501
  Orlando, FL  United States  32826-0150
• Principal Investigators:

  Eluru, Naveen

• Start Date: 20220822
• Expected Completion Date: 20231222
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Connected vehicles; Mobility; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Vehicle sharing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01719238
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-102(29)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Oct 8 2019 11:14PM