Project Information
This research suggests a multidisciplinary, multimodal, multilevel modeling system for the Nation's operative regions for global economic competition. The analysis focuses on a critical, overarching, complex, and vexing aspect of transportation policy decisions: how the cost and the pricing of different regional transportation investments affect travel performance in the large megaregion. The research will conduct a number of transportation pricing experiments and examine how changes in prices affect travel behavior, land use, economic growth, residential energy consumption, and regional environmental impacts.
Goals:
(1) Explore transportation investment decisions at the megaregional scale.
(2) Address intrametropolitan and intermetropolitan person travel and freight movement.
(3) Address the fact that megaregions can have different characteristics that may require special research modeling.
(4) Demonstrate what can be learned by modeling at the megaregional level that cannot be learned by modeling at the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) level.