Travel Forecasting for New Starts Proposals

The Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Planning and Environment sponsored a two-day workshop June 15 & 16, 2006 at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis.  Below are the workshop material and discussion documents where they exist (there are no discussion pieces for Sessions 2, 12, 13, 14, and 15).

• Workshop Agenda (Excel) 
• Presentation #1 (PDF) 
• Presentation #2 (PDF) 
• Discussion #1 – Allowances in the Valuation of Project Benefits and Determination of Cost-Effectiveness For Proposed New Starts Projects (Word) 
• Discussion #1 – Table 1. Alterative Methods for Computing Cost-Effectiveness (Excel) 
• Discussion #3 – Evaluation of Highway Capacity Congestion Relief Benefits (Word) 
• Discussion #4 – Ridership and User Benefits from Variable Trip Tables (Word) 
• Discussion #4 – Spreadsheet example of user benefits calculation from variable trip tables (Excel) 
• Discussion #5 – Ridership and User Benefits from Variable Trip Ends (Land Use and Economic Development) (Word) 
• Discussion #6 – Predicted and Actual Ridership of Proposed New Starts Projects (Word) 
• Discussion #7 – Library of Survey Data for Quality Control on Forecasts for New Starts Projects (Word) 
• Discussion #8 – CTPP-based Aggregate Model (Word) 
• Discussion #9 – Semi-independent Forecasts of Ridership and User Benefits for New Starts Projects (Word) 
• Discussion #10 – Additional Measures for Quality Control of New Starts Forecasts (Word) 
• Discussion #11 – Illustrative Mode-Choice and Summit Calculations for Travel by One Market Segment between a Pair of Zones for Base and Build Alternatives (Word) 
• Discussion #11 – Spreadsheet example of Summit calculations (Excel) 
• Discussion #16 – Calibration and Validation of Travel Models for New Starts Forecasting (Word) 
• Discussion #17 – Methods for Collection of Data on Transit Riders (Word) 
• Discussion #18 – Preservation and Analysis of Travel Forecasts for New Starts Projects (Word)