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DVRPC TMIP Peer Review Introduction and Context Oct. 29 th, 2014
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Planning Context for Modeling & Analysis Introduction to DVRPC and the Office of Modeling and Analysis Main planning partners with example studies 2015-2023 Model Improvement Plan Early feedback and prospective future regional analysis needs
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Introduction to the Region
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Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) 2 States 9 Counties 351 Municipalities 5.6 Million Population 3,800 sq. miles ~115 employees Activities – Long Range Plan (LRP) Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Wide range of planning and technical support for regional partners
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DVRPC Region - Transportation System & Land Use Multimodal – 125+ bus lines, 4 Heavy rail, 9 LRT/Streetcar, 14 Regional Rail, Amtrak 18 Bridges (mostly toll) connecting NJ & PA 2 Major toll highways, numerous non-tolled (but no HOV) Center City Philadelphia is still the region’s core and largest activity center Several other urban activity centers – Trenton, Camden, etc. Significant suburban activity centers – King of Prussia, Rt. 1 Corridor in Mercer Open rural fringes remain
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DVRPC Region – Transportation System Some days we have 2 million pedestrian trips on Broad Street… …but hard to forecast when.
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TRIP MATRIX BY COUNTY (%) 7
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Residential Single-Family Detached Residential Multi-Family Residential Row Home Residential Mobile Home Manufacturing Light Industrial Manufacturing Heavy Industrial Transportation & Parking Utility Commercial Community Services Military Recreation Agriculture Mining Wooded Vacant Water
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Introduction to The Office of Modeling and Analysis
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DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis 8 Full time permanent staff + interns 9 VISUM licenses, 2 VISSIM licenses Responsible for majority of model development and applications in the region
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DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis Workstation Type A – 2 ea. Dual Xeon 8-Core processors (E5-2687W v2) 192 GB RAM Workstation Type B – 2 ea. Single Xeon 6-Core processor (E3-1650 v1) 64 GB RAM Server Quad Xeon 4-Core processor (E7440) 64 GB RAM
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DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis Total Storage Space: 43.8 TB 29.7 TB Used 14.1 TB Free “Backed up” Space: 29.3 TB 20.9 TB Used 8.4 TB Free 70.37% of data is backed up
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DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis Data: Surveys (25%) Forecasting: Conformity analysis & Long range planning (15%) Highway alternatives analysis (Ex: US 202 Sec 600) (20%) Transit studies / FTA New Starts (Ex: KoP Rail) (25%) Economic analysis (PATCO Econ Study) (10%) Bike and walk travel estimation (Bike share demand) Microsimulation (5%) Evacuation modeling (10%)
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Alphabet soup of partners: Main partners for modeling (clients): PennDOT SEPTA (PA side transit agency) DRPA (bridge authority and transit agency) MOTU & PCPC (City of Phila. Agencies) MCPC (Montgomery County)
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8 Year Improvement Plan Modeled after last plan Input from: Planning partners Staff TMIP peer review
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Planning Context – Top 3 1. What we do well now – keep doing (well) 2. Operational level tools – transit and auto 3. Good data, new data
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Planning Context – External Feedback + Continued support for current tasks + DTA for signal timing and other operational analysis + Excitement for transit operations model (25 uses/year) + Support for data collection (counts, NPT data, etc.) - Limited need for predictive LU model
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Planning Context – Internal Feedback + Model results and survey results viewers (democratization of model and data) + Sketch and operational transit, bike, ped tools + Strong interest in integrated LU-Transp. Models + More metrics than just TT, congestion (health impacts, safety impacts, etc.) + Pavement condition and connected vehicles + Better truck modeling, including economic measures
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Planning Context – Internal Feedback + Easy mesh with microsimulation + Easier use of TIM + Traffic impact analysis + Signal optimization capabilities + Need to be able to model CMP strategies (whether TDM, or other tool)
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Planning Context – Us Modelers + Continue to do great “traditional” studies (new highway and transit major capacity studies) + Bring the ABM on-line on-time and within budget, and in a way where staff is completely comfortable with the model + Enhance the efficiency and ease of modeling, esp. in sharing results with non-modelers + Match analysis with planning needs – i.e. more operational level tools + Ability to model tolling important (but, not most important) ~ some type of LU model for LRP
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Travel Models - Overview TIM1.0 First VISUM model, completed in 2009 TIM 2.0 “Best-in-class” 4-step model Networks carry forward TIM 2.1 & TIM 2.2 Minor bug fixes and improvements Tim 3.0 Fully disaggregate microsimulated activity based
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