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Sensitivity Testing with the Oregon Statewide Integrated Model

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01127511

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Abstract:

Oregon has a long history of developing and using integrated economic, land use–transport models. Development of the Oregon Statewide Integrated Model (SWIM) was commissioned by the Oregon Department of Transportation as part of its Transportation and Land Use Model Improvement Program within the larger Oregon Modeling Improvement Program. The first version model, now named SWIM1, has been used in numerous applications since the late 1990s. A more extensive second version, SWIM2, is now available. It uses the PECAS economic input–output activity allocation framework, an aggregate model of spatial development and microsimulation models of freight and person transport. This paper describes the work considered in the later stages of development of the SWIM2 model, including results of sensitivity testing and reports on concurrent actions to transfer the model to agency operation. The sensitivity tests considered three alternative scenarios covering the evolution of the statewide spatial economic and transport systems over a 19-year period. Each scenario was compared to a reference case. In one scenario, highway capacity was increased substantially along an Interstate corridor radiating out from the Portland metropolitan area for more than 100 mi. In the other two scenarios, the costs for vehicle travel were increased four- and 10-fold over 1998 costs. The model system was found to respond consistent with a priori expectations. Population and employment shift to areas of comparatively better accessibilities, urban densities change, trip lengths and modes change, and floor space development and prices respond to these changes in patterns that evolve across the state over time.

Monograph Accession #:

01147880

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-2601

Language:

English

Authors:

Weidner, Tara
Knudson, Becky
Picado, Rosella
Hunt, J D

Pagination:

pp 109-122

Publication Date:

2009

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2133
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309142748

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (22) ; Tables (4)

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Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 6:57PM

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