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Title:

Integrating a Binational GIS-Based Network and Traffic Analysis Zones for Paso Del Norte Region (U.S.-Mexico)

Accession Number:

01631455

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Recent transportation projects in the Paso Del Norte Region (PDNR), a binational metropolitan area conformed of El Paso, Texas, United States and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, have involved the use of network based platforms (transportation analysis software) as a primary tool for transportation planning and traffic analysis. While the transportation network in these two border cities has been analyzed and modeled separately, the two geographic areas are so interconnected that from a theoretical perspective it makes more sense to model them as one integrated region. All the existing base transportation networks in the PDNR have required a significant amount of time and effort from researchers and users to update and make necessary adaptations/corrections depending on the analysis they require. Problems in the existing base networks include deficiencies such as missing links, incorrect attributes, connectivity problems, lack of projection/coordinate system, limited zonal structure, lack of external zones, etc. Regional professionals have been using road networks provided by local transportation authorities and importing/exporting them among multiple macro, micro, and mesoscopic platforms. This practice produces a duplication of efforts by updating and adapting the same network and zonal structure several times for different planning purposes.This paper has two objectives: (i) to describe the developing of a PDNR Master Network that integrates both metropolitan areas, is free of attribute problems, and can be used with several transportation platforms; and (ii) to propose a method to update and improve the binational Origin-Destination matrices derived from two urban, existing and independent, travel demand models.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ60 Standing Committee on Geographic Information Science and Applications. Alternate title: Integrating Binational GIS-Based Network and Traffic Analysis Zones for Paso Del Norte Region (U.S.-Mexico).

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-05757

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Galicia, Luis David
Valdez, Gabriel A
Cornejo, Lorenzo

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Chihuahua (Mexico); El Paso (Texas)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-05757

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:18PM