Virginia Transportation Modeling and Accessibility Program

Links

Federal Agencies  

• U. S. Department of Transportation
  • Federal Highway Administration
    • Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)
    • Freight forecasting
    • Freight analysis framework
    • Land use and transportation planning
    • Guidebook on statewide travel forecasting
    • Federal functional classification

• Federal Transit Administration
  • New starts modeling guidance
  • Procedures and technical methods for transit project planning

• Environmental Protection Agency
  • Clean Air Act

 State Agencies

• Virginia Employment Commission
• Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation
• Virginia Department of Aviation
• Virginia Port Authority

 Research Institutes

• National Highway Institute
• National Transit Institute
• Travel Model Improvement Program
• Transportation Research Board
• Texas Transportation Institute

Training Resources

• NTI courses
• ESRI Training and Education

Other Learning Resources

      Basic

• Transportation forecasting on Wikipedia
• Introduction to Travel Demand Forecasting
• "Inside the Black Box" (Making Transportation Models Work For Livable Communities)

      Advanced

• Guidebook on Methods to Estimate Non-Motorized Travel (1999)

Modeling Software

• Bentley-CUBE
• Caliper-TransCAD