UWM, Center for Urban Transportation Studies
Research Summaries:

· Land Use

· Transit

· Travel Forecasting

· Other topics

· ITS Projects

Land Use Projects:

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· Realtionships between Land Use Patterns and Road Widening (2.2 mb)

· Land Use and Transportation, A White paper prepared for the Arizona Department of Transpotation

· Smart Growth Transportation, A presentation to the Wisconsin ITE Traffic Engineering Workshop

· A Land Use - Transportation Primer Smitha Vijayan (1415 K)

· Power Point presentation of the Land Use - Transportation Primer

· Environmental Issues in Local Land Use DevelopmentWilliam Schlise (381 K)

· Transportation and Aesthetics: Context Sensitive Design Malindi Neluheni (480 K)

· Transportation Guidelines for Local Land Use Decisions Christine Rawson (1080 K)

An Overview: Land Use and Economic Development in Statewide Transportation Planning FHWA Report

· Implications of Automated Highways on Land Use Patterns Transit Based Land Use design (Now includes full report as pdf file)

· Transit Sensitive Land Use Design Guidelines

· Implementation Strategies for Transit Based Land Use design

Transit Projects

· Basic course material in Public Transit

· An Examination of the process of innovation at transit systems: (trb paper for January 06 meeting)

· Innovations in Transit Systems - full report

· Highways and Transit: Leveling the Playing Field in Federal Transportation Policy

· Innovations in Transit web page

· Impact of Accessibility, Connetivity and Mode Captivity on Transit Choice - Full Report

· Transit Accessibility, Connectivity and Captivity: Impacts on Transit Choice - TRB Record 1835 (shortened) Version

· Power point slides for " Accessibility, Connectivity and Captivity: Impacts on Transit Choice"

· Waukesha Trip Planner

· User Assessment of The Benefits of Automatic Vehicle Location Systems

· Power Point Presentation of papaer: User Assessment of The Benefits of Automatic Vehicle Location Systems

· Evaluation of the Benefits of Automated VEhicle Location Systems for Small and Medium Sized Transit Agencies (Adobe Acrobat file, 154K) , (paper from 1999 TRB meeting)

· Full version of the AVL Benefits report(Adobe Acrobat file, 360K)

· Appendix A of the AVL Benefits report - AVL State of the Art(Adobe Acrobat file, 393K)

· Measurement of Transit Benefits

· A full graphics version of the Benefits Report is availible at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (5.8mb as an acrobat document)

· A text version of the Benefits Report is also available at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (500k + figures as gifs)

· Windows version of CAI Fundamentals of transit course

· Design of Transit Facilities

· Executive Summary Evaluation of an Innovative Transit Pass (UPASS) Program

· Usage, Impacts and Transferability of an Innovative Pass Program (TRB paper for 1998 meeting

· · Power Point presentation about UPASS used by Chicago Transit Authority (TRB

Travel Forecasting

· A Transportation Modeling Primer

· Inside the Black Box, making travel models work for livable communities (includes the primer above and additional information) 7.9 mb in size!

· A Critical Review of Statewide Travel Forecasting Practice (Adobe Acrobat file, 77K) , (paper from 1999 TRB meeting)

· Through Trip Tables for Small Urban Areas (Adobe Acrobat file, 117K) , (paper from 1999 TRB meeting)

· A GNE/QRSII Primer - Overview

· Updated... A GNE/QRSII Primer - Part 1

· Guidebook on Statewide Travel Forecasting

· Quick Response Freight Manual

· Delay Volume Relations for Travel Forecasting

· FHWA's Model Calibration Manual

Other topics

· Sensitivity Analysis of Factors Affecting Road Widneing Tresholds, Paper for National ITE meeting, August, 2006

· Transportation Energy: Demand, Supply and the Future, Paper for ITE Disrtict IV meeting, June, 2005

· Engineer in Residence: A Strategy for Increasing Relevancy in Transportation Education

· Fundamentals of Technology Transfer

· Methods to Estimate Capacity and Delay at Roundabouts for use in Travel ForecastingAdobe Acrobat, 236K

· WDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Design Manual

· WDOT Traffic Incident Management Enhancement(TIME)Program Manual

· Internet GIS and its Applications in Transportation

· Design of Freeway Noise Barriers

· Evaluation of Intermodal Transfer Facilities

· Survey of Motorist Attitudes Towards a Proposed Highway Project

· How to Conduct a Focus Group

· Use of an Alternative Futures Approach for Transportation Planning

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