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| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-10-0088 | |
| Project Name: | Megaregional Travel | |
| Project Status: | Completed | |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2010 | |
| End Date: | March 31, 2013 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Yoder | |
| First Name: | Supin | |
| Telephone: | 708-283-3554 | |
| E-mail: | Supin.Yoder@dot.gov | |
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| Team: | HEPP [HEPP-30] | |
| Program: | Exploratory Advanced Research | |
| Project detail | ||
| Project Description: | 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: |
(1) Explore transportation investment decisions at the megaregional scale.
(2) Address intrametropolitan and intermetropolitan person travel and freight movement.
(3) Address the fact that megaregions can have different characteristics that may require special research modeling.
(4) Demonstrate what can be learned by modeling at the megaregional level that cannot be learned by modeling at the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) level.
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| Product Type: | Research report | |
| Test Methodology: | Multidisciplinary (econometric, land use, nutrient loading, residential energy, and fiscal impact research models). | |
| Expected Benefits: | To develop a technically sound evaluation and politically implementable recommendations for megaregional transportation analysis. | |
| Deliverables: | Name: A Megaregion Framework for Analyzing a High Energy Price Future Product Type(s): Research report Description: Final Report | |
| Related URL(s): | http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/exit.cfm?link=http://www.pbworld.com/pdfs/pb_in_the_news/moeckel_weidner_et_al_trb2012_mega-region_framework_analyzing_high_energy_price_future.pdf http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/megaregions/reports/market_analysis/ |
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| FHWA Topics: | Research/Technologies--Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) | |
| TRT Terms: | Travel and Shipment Characteristics Travel Behavior Land Use Economic Growth Energy Consumption Environmental Impacts Regional Transportation Socioeconomic Development |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | None |
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| Subject Areas: | Economics Environment Transportation (General) |
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