Model-based Transportation Performance: A Comparative Framework and Literature Synthesis

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

3-2012

Subject Area

land use - planning, place - north america, planning - environmental impact

Keywords

Urban transportation policies, Performance evaluation, Environmental impacts, Land-use models, Traffic models

Abstract

In an era of limited resources and a proliferation of data, there is increasing pressure to conduct careful evaluations of the economic, environmental, and equity effects of investments and policies that influence transportation and land-use systems. This report compares performance measures recommended to achieve desired goals and reviews the literature to determine the degree to which these measures have been implemented and what they indicate about the relative effectiveness of land-use, transit, and automobile pricing policies. Despite the variation in methods and performance measures implemented in the studies reviewed for this report, the synthesis of study results suggests the direction and relative magnitude of change resulting from different types of policies, as well as potential biases introduced by omitting the representation of the land-use and transportation interaction. Overall, the performance measures indicate that carefully designed transit, land-use, and automobile pricing policies may improve travel, economic, environmental, and equity conditions for communities. However, transit and peak-period automobile pricing policies can, in some situations, lead to negative performance outcomes across some or all measures, as illustrated in studies that explicitly represent the land-use and transportation interaction.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Mineta Transportation Institute, copyright remains with them.

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