ASSESSING NATIONAL URBAN TRANSPORTATION POLICY ALTERNATIVES

This paper describes a model for assessing national urban transportation policy alternatives and its application in the 1974 National Transportation Study in the U.S. This multimodal version of the trans urban model system employs an aggregate modelling technique which treats each urban area as a single analysis unit. Given a level and mix of funds, the model calculates the amount of highway and transit facilities, travel demand by mode, system performance, and external impacts such as fatalities, land consumed, air pollution, dislocations and energy consumed. The model was applied to assess the effects of alternative funding and pricing policies for the 64 largest urbanized areas. /Author/

• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • WEINER, E
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 159-177
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research /UK/
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Assessments; Fatalities; Fuel consumption; Highways; Impact studies; Land use; Mode choice; Multimodal transportation; Prices; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection; National transportation study
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Energy; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139611
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1981 12:00AM