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Title:

A Mixed Approach for Simulating the Environmental Sustainability of Land Use Scenarios Using Multicriterion Evaluations

Accession Number:

01515207

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper discusses the creation of a practical modeling approach that integrates land use and transportation demand to quantify environmental sustainability under various land development regimes. This includes a novel approach that combines a logit model and multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) with the goal of projecting future residential population and employment distributions for status quo and idealized urban forms (sprawl, compact, and multinucleated). A sustainability index is created to measure key performance indicators comparing the sustainability of potential urban forms. The results of this index validate prior expectations that a compact urban form minimizes harmful environmental emissions from transportation by reducing the length of commuter trips while sprawl has the opposite effect. Surprisingly, the multinucleated urban form produces results similar to the status quo scenario indicating that it may not be a desirable alternative for reducing the overall harmful emissions from automobile usage. The poor performance is partially driven by a lack of explicit transit ridership behavior. These results reveal that the sustainability of urban patterns in a sprawled city like Windsor is reliant on their ability to encourage alternate modes of transportation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40(2) Integrated Transportation and Land Use Modeling. Alternate title: Mixed Approach for Simulating Environmental Sustainability of Land Use Scenarios Using Multicriterion Evaluations

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-0161

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Gingerich, Kevin
Maoh, Hanna
Su, Yingqi
Anderson, William P

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Performance indicators

Geographic Terms:

Windsor (Canada)

Subject Areas:

Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-0161

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:10PM