A Metropolitan Planning Organization is responsible for traffic modeling and traffic forecasting within its region. It uses these traffic forecasts to develop its Transportation Improvement Plan, a five-year plan of needed roadway repairs, improvements, or construction projects. This research focused on three general themes for improving transportation planning and management of a community's transportation system for Metropolitan Planning Organizations within Alabama. The first theme involved developing and teaching workshops on traffic modeling and TRANPLAN, a software package that is difficult to learn and operate for planning purposes. The second general theme examined of the difference between regional and local traffic modeling and developed a regional-to-local modeling system to allow a similar model to be used for different levels of analysis. The regional-to-local modeling system developed by this project used TRANPLAN (regional forecasting tool) and CORSIM (local network micro-simulation package). The final theme was a review of the Census Transportation Planning Package to summarize and disseminate transportation data for the state and its urban areas.
Modeling Support and Examination of Census Transportation Planning Package
2003
72 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Transportation planning , Traffic models , Traffic estimates , Forecasting , Community planning , Transportation management , Metropolitan areas , Regional planning , Local planning , Computer software , Transportation systems
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