APPLICATIONS OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM-TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS PACKAGES IN SUPERREGIONAL TRANSPORTATION MODELING

"Superregions" are large areas 50 to 100 mi across containing several large cities that function as an integrated group. Transportation planning for such regions has typically been minimal, limited to the planning efforts of the separate urban area metropolitan planning organizations. As the area grows, however, interarea commuting patterns and integrated economies increase the need to analyze the entire region as a unit. The use of new Geographic Information System (GIS)-transportation packages to conduct such an analysis for the Charlotte, North Carolina, area, an emerging superregion of 1.6 million people, is discussed. The impetus for the study is a proposal for a 150-mi (or more) road around the region, called the Carolinas Parkway. Using the GIS package TransCAD, a sketch network for the region is developed by merging data from a variety of sources. Traffic is simulated over the network using a doubly constrained gravity model technique, calibrating simulated traffic to existing traffic counts. Preliminary forecasts of the parkway traffic are then made. An additional procedure, LANDSAT imagery, is being used to identify and categorize land uses in several alternative corridors for the parkway. The problems and opportunities presented by superregional modeling are discussed, and ways by which transportation planning will be changed by both the need for such models and the availability of the software to build them are suggested.

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• Authors:
  • Gallimore, W Paul
  • Hartgen, David T
  • Li, Yuanjun
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 122-130
• Monograph Title: Transportation planning, programming, land use, and applications of geographic information systems
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1364
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data analysis; Geographic information systems; Gravity models; Land use; Landsat satellites; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Sketch planning; Software; Traffic estimation; Traffic simulation; Transportation; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Geographic Terms: Charlotte (North Carolina)
• Old TRIS Terms: Landsat; Sketch planning techniques; Superregions; Traffic forecasts
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00626928
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309054036
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 24 1993 12:00AM