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.
Recommended Citation
Rodier, C., & Spiller, M. (2012). Model-based Transportation Performance: A Comparative Framework and Literature Synthesis. Mineta Transportation Institute Report No. CA-MTI-12-2805, 122 pp.
