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"Superregions" are large areas 50 to 100 mi across containing several large cities that function as an integrated group. Transportation planning for such regions has typically been minimal, limited to the planning efforts of the separate urban area metropolitan planning organizations. As the area grows, however, interarea commuting patterns and integrated economies increase the need to analyze the entire region as a unit. The use of new Geographic Information System (GIS)-transportation packages to conduct such an analysis for the Charlotte, North Carolina, area, an emerging superregion of 1.6 million people, is discussed. The impetus for the study is a proposal for a 150-mi (or more) road around the region, called the Carolinas Parkway. Using the GIS package TransCAD, a sketch network for the region is developed by merging data from a variety of sources. Traffic is simulated over the network using a doubly constrained gravity model technique, calibrating simulated traffic to existing traffic counts. Preliminary forecasts of the parkway traffic are then made. An additional procedure, LANDSAT imagery, is being used to identify and categorize land uses in several alternative corridors for the parkway. The problems and opportunities presented by superregional modeling are discussed, and ways by which transportation planning will be changed by both the need for such models and the availability of the software to build them are suggested.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1364, Transportation Planning, Programming, Land Use, and Applications of Geographic Information Systems. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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Data analysis; Geographic information systems; Gravity models; Land use; Landsat satellites; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Sketch planning; Software; Traffic estimation; Traffic simulation; Transportation; Transportation planning

Transportation models

Charlotte (North Carolina)

Charlotte (North Carolina)

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Feb 24 1993 12:00AM

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