Identifying the Local and Regional Travel Effects of Activity Centers in the Austin, Texas Area

Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) have become increasingly interested in incorporating innovated land use planning and design into transportation plan-making. Many design ideas are recommended under the umbrella of the New Urbanism; yet in practice they hardly get fully implemented in the standard transportation planning procedures. The project includes two parts. Part one refines the analysis of trip generation as it relates to mixed use development (MXD), with a focus on trip-chaining behavior, an approach taken by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO). Part two looks into the potential of and challenges facing land use intervention as an emission reduction tool. Through the Austin case study, it investigates the regional and local distributional effects of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and Green House Gas (GHG) emission changes pertaining to recommended land use and design innovations.

• Record URL:
  http://swutc.tamu.edu/publications/technicalreports/600451-00088-1.pdf
• Summary URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/search/SearchResults_ClearCriteria.aspx?q=(catalog.ID=(33653))
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  Center for Transportation Research, 1616 Guadalupe Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-1255

  Southwest Region University Transportation Center

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Zhang, Ming
  • Zhang, Wenjia
  • Pang, Hao
• Publication Date: 2015-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 83p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity centers; Case studies; Greenhouse gases; Land use planning; Mixed use development; Transportation planning; Trip chaining; Trip generation; Vehicle miles of travel
• Identifier Terms: Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (Texas)
• Geographic Terms: Austin (Texas)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01575524
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SWUTC/15/600451-00088-1, Report 161331
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-G-UTC06
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 3 2015 10:39AM