Bellevue-Kirkland-Redmond Travel Model Development – BKRCast
RSG developed the next-generation activity-based travel demand model for the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond (BKR) in Washington State. The project was contracted through the City of Bellevue with support from its partners in the cities of Kirkland and Redmond. The goal of the work was to create a state-of-the-practice travel demand model to support scenario planning applications through proven methodology and local travel behavior data. We began with a model…
Development of a Multi-Criteria Evaluation Toolkit
Transportation planners use benefit-cost analysis (BCA) tools to inform policies or investments. While immensely helpful, BCA tools are often focused, examining only the economic impact of transportation planning decisions. Oregon Metro wanted something broader in scope. Specifically, they sought a quantitative analytic tool that also examined the impact of planning decisions in environmental and social/equity…
Consolidated Travel Model Software Platform Development and Enhancement – ActivitySim
The Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) chose RSG to build an open platform for regional activity-based travel demand modeling. Our work was funded by a consortium of transportation planning agencies (San Diego Association of Governments, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Atlanta Regional Commission, Puget Sound Regional Council, San Francisco County Transportation Authority, and the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments) who sought to create a shared, open platform that could be easily…
Activity-Based Model Speedup and Calibration/Validation
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) chose RSG to improve their activity-based travel demand model and to fully calibrate and validate it to local data. The goal of the work was to make the model more relevant and useful for planning studies. The CMAP model simulates daily travel patterns for the 10-million-person Chicago metro area to help the region forecast and plan for future travel needs. The model system implements multiple…
Open Source Activity-Based Model Visualization Toolkit – ABMVIZ
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) chose RSG to migrate their desktop-based ABMVIZ travel demand model interactive visualization tool to the web. Our goal was to help ARC improve modeling outreach and user experience. To accomplish this, the new visualization tool website uses JavaScript to leverage open source data visualization libraries available for free online. The…
Big Data Analytics for Northeast Indiana
RSG assisted the Northeastern Indiana Regional Coordinating Council (NIRCC) with big data acquisition and analysis to better understand the regional movements of people and trucks in northeastern Indiana. RSG helped NIRCC select a big data vendor and negotiate a data subscription. We expanded the data using a multistep process including iterative screenline fitting by matrix…
Michigan Statewide Model Update
RSG is working with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to develop an entirely new statewide model for the state. The model employs a data-driven framework to leverage big data, especially for long-distance and visitor trips. Accurately capturing travel-related tourism is a key goal of the project given its significant and growing role in the…
New York City Travel Survey
RSG is the lead consultant on a team selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to conduct a regional travel survey in New York City. The survey will collect data on travel origins and destinations, trip purposes, and socioeconomic and travel characteristics of both New York City Transit customers and noncustomers residing in the five…
Puget Sound Regional Council Household Travel Survey
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) continue to be targeted for intense research and development by the private sector. The public sector is now also grappling with the potential effects of large numbers of CAVs on public roads. To date, few surveys and focus groups have explored public response to CAVs and those that have identify…
San Diego Regional Transportation Study
RSG conducted the most recent Household Travel Behavior Survey for the San Diego Association of Governments from 2016 to 2017. The project surveyed more than 6,100 households approximately three-quarters of whom participated for seven consecutive days using RSG’s smartphone-based GPS travel survey app, rMove™. The remaining sample completed a traditional one-day travel diary online or…
Tennessee Statewide Model Update
RSG worked with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to develop the latest version of the Tennessee Statewide Model (TSM). RSG’s work helped advance dataset processing capabilities and represents one of the first statewide applications of AirSage data and the first project to combine cellular datasets and GPS datasets. The project occurred in three phases…
Big Data Analytics for Charlotte, NC
The City of Charlotte, North Carolina, chose RSG as part of a team to advise and assist with big data acquisition and analysis. The work sought to better understand the movement of people and freight within the region. RSG delivered project insights as a data consumer and a data provider. Specifically, we advised on big…