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Resources for Faster Delivery of New Highway Capacity
Projects that comprise the SHRP 2 Capacity Research Plan are shown in the Projects database, which is organized by project number. Click the project number for a description of the expected project activity.
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Conferences
Products
Publications
Webinars
Finding the Next Generation of Freight Demand Models
Posted October 15, 2010
Sixteen research teams presented their ideas for improving freight demand models during a symposium held September 14–15, 2010, as part of SHRP 2 Capacity research. The focus of the research is to help bring freight modeling closer to real-world, practical, relevant outputs, and to further the science of freight-demand modeling, and its practical application within planning agencies. The Symposium is a sub-project under a larger initiative of SHRP 2 project C20, The Freight Modeling and Data Improvement Strategic Plan. The outcomes of the Symposium will become direct inputs to the overall C20 project, which will include a strategic research “road map” for improving freight demand modeling and freight data and forecasting practice over a 10-year time frame. More information is available on the following
page.
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Capacity research products are tools for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community goals into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capacity. Click on a topic to learn about products and their current status:
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Collaborative Decision Making • Economic Impact Analysis • Integration of Conservation Planning, Highway Planning, and Environmental Review • Advanced Modeling and Networks • Operations to Improve Capacity and Reliability • Greenhouse Gases • Public/Private Partnerships • Smart Growth
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New Project Brief: Improved Models for Better Decisions: Planning Models, Traffic Operations Models, and Activity-Based Models
Posted January 3, 2012
Decisions about spending public funds for transportation
improvements often are informed by estimates and forecasts developed
through mathematical models. The more closely these models represent
reality and include important influencing factors, the more confidence
we can have in spending decisions. Models that can provide a better
basis for predicting how highway improvements affect congestion, for
example, or that reflect the differences in forecasting freight demand
and passenger transportation will provide a more reliable picture of
future needs. This project brief
describes five projects from the SHRP 2 Capacity and Reliability focus
areas that are working to improve existing planning models, operations
models, and activity-based models.
Older publications are available on the SHRP 2 Publications Page.
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Recorded webinars are available on the Recorded Capacity Webinars page.
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