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Title:

MOSAIC-Model Of Sustainability And Integrated Corridors: A Comprehensive Tool for Multimodal Sustainable Corridor Planning

Accession Number:

01559849

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper develops a Model Of Sustainability And Integrated Corridors (MOSAIC) to select the best program-level plans for corridors within Maryland by estimating the sustainability impact of multimodal highway improvement options early in the transportation planning and environmental screening processes with minimum requirements on staff time and other resources. Six categories of sustainability indicators (mobility, safety, socio-economic impact, natural resources, energy and emissions, and cost) and more than thirty sustainability performance measures have been defined as evaluation criteria for the selection of highway corridor improvement options. MOSAIC is capable of evaluating ten multimodal corridor improvement options when employed in both either single or multi-improvement scenarios. The pivot-point mode choice model and six sustainability evaluation modules used in MOSAIC are discussed in detail. A case study of the US-29 corridor within Maryland is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of MOSAIC. Results show that the selection of the most desirable improvement option depends on policy priority, e.g., green improvement, mobility focus, or balanced approach. This corridor planning tool is now being integrated into the enterprise geographic information systems (GIS) system for statewide applications in Maryland.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-5817

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhang, Lei
Tang, Liang
Ferrari, Nicholas
Ji, Mingyang
Beckett, Eric
Mahapatra, Subrat
Slater, Greg

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

U.S. Route 29

Geographic Terms:

Maryland

Subject Areas:

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-5817

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:57PM