Data Development for Implementing an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Forecasting Modeling in a Medium-Sized MPO

Integrated land use and transportation forecasting models require large amounts of data to estimate and calibrate. Obtaining reliable data sets for these models can be one of the most cost prohibitive and time consuming stages of such an endeavor. For this reason many metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and state departments of transportation (DOTs) have not yet adopted integrated land use and transportation forecasting tools in spite of their clear potential. The purpose of this paper is to present a case study data development program that was able to successfully provide all of the needed data for the estimation and calibration of an integrated land use and transportation forecasting model. The recently developed Cube Land model was implemented in the Montgomery (Alabama) Area Metropolitan Planning Organization with funding from the Alabama Department of Transportation. The data development program was fiscally and temporally constrained and replicates typical model development conditions in medium-sized MPOs. This case study presents findings demonstrating that locally developed datasets combined with national data sources and “off-the-shelf”, relatively low cost but high quality, purchasable datasets can be obtained in a relatively short amount of time and are sufficient to estimate and calibrate an integrated land use and transportation forecasting model. One of the constraints placed upon this project from its funders was that both the data development and model implementation had to result in readily transferable processes that could be implemented by other planning agencies within the state. An argument is presented that these processes are transferable not only within the state of Alabama but also to other small- to medium-sized MPOs with in the US.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Clay, Michael J
  • White, Wade L
  • Holley, Paul
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
• Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Case studies; Data collection; Forecasting; Integrated systems; Land use planning; Medium sized cities; Metropolitan planning organizations; State departments of transportation
• Geographic Terms: Montgomery (Alabama)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01340048
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 11-3438
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 18 2011 10:51AM