Using TRANUS to Construct a Land Use-Transportation-Emissions Model of Charlotte, North Carolina

Integrated land use-transportation-emissions models are necessary to rigorously assess the potential of land use and transportation policies to reduce the vehicular emissions contributing to tropospheric ozone and to fine particulate matter. A theoretically- and empirically-grounded model contains these major components: data on economic sectors, population sectors, and intersectoral flows of commodities and labor; a transportation network; sectoral demands for land, predicting both the quantity and location demanded; elastic trip generation; transportation mode choice including non-motorized modes as a function of built-environment characteristics; a traffic assignment algorithm; and a MOVES-like module that estimates emission factors. That technical approach is incorporated in a TRANUS-based model that is being used to assess long-term development scenarios that could be implemented in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina's largest metropolitan area and part of an ozone nonattainment area. A unique feature of the Mecklenburg County model is use of random-utility theory and a typology of the built environment in the estimation of key parameters describing residential and enterprise locational choices and transportation mode choice.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Morton, B J
  • Rodriguez, DA
  • Song, Y
  • Cho, E J
• Conference:
  • Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality
  • Location: Orlando FL, United States
  • Date: 2007-7-9 to 2007-7-11
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 206-218
• Monograph Title: Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 9-11, 2007

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Built environment; Exhaust gases; Industrial location; Land use models; Metropolitan areas; Mode choice; Residential location; Simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Geographic Terms: Charlotte (North Carolina)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01113213
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784409602
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 21 2008 8:49AM