Megaregional Travel
Project Information
Project ID:
FHWA-PROJ-10-0088
Project Abstract:
This research suggests a multidisciplinary, multimodal, multilevel modeling system for the Nation's operative regions for global economic competition. The analysis focuses on a critical, overarching, complex, and vexing aspect of transportation policy decisions: how the cost and the pricing of different regional transportation investments affect travel performance in the large megaregion. The research will conduct a number of transportation pricing experiments and examine how changes in prices affect travel behavior, land use, economic growth, residential energy consumption, and regional environmental impacts.
Goals:
- Explore transportation investment decisions at the megaregional scale.
- Address intrametropolitan and intermetropolitan person travel and freight movement.
- Address the fact that megaregions can have different characteristics that may require special research modeling.
- Demonstrate what can be learned by modeling at the megaregional level that cannot be learned by modeling at the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) level.
Project Status:
Completed
Project Funding Amount (Contract Award Amount):
$499,977.00
Start Date:
End Date:
Public Access Plan:
No
FHWA Program Area:
- Exploratory Advanced Research
Fiscal Year / AMRP Program / AMRP Activity:
- FY 2002-2022 / Planning, Environment, and Realty / Modeling and Analysis Tools
AMRP = Annual Modal Research Plan
Contact Information
Team:
Systems Planning and Analysis Team
Office:
Office of Planning
Office Code:
HEPP-30
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