Community Outreach Web Application
In partnership with Howard-Stein Hudson, RSG delivered a community outreach web application for the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council (SMTC) to engage the Syracuse community in the I-81 corridor planning process. The software tool hosts project files, meeting notes, a project calendar, a blog, videos, and other project resources to help the community and the planning…
Noise Impact of Quarry on Surrounding Community
Southern Ready Mix Aggregates in Opelika, Alabama, planned to make several changes in its equipment and operations. Before it could implement these changes, the quarry needed to determine the relative noise impacts on adjoining residences. To assess noise impacts from the quarry’s operations, RSG: visited the Opelika quarry six times over a one-year period taking…
Wind Turbine Acoustics Research Study
RSG, in cooperation with Northeast Wind, Inc. (NEWind) and Epsilon Associates, Inc. (Epsilon), is working with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and the Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to understand the special factors related to the prediction and measurement of wind turbine noise. The project team is working to develop a comprehensive data collection…
San Diego Land-Use Model Assessment
RSG is leading an effort to assess the performance of the current SANDAG Production, Exchange and Consumptions Allocation System (PECAS) land-use model implementation, and make recommendations to establish improved and more direct integration between PECAS and the SANDAG CT-RAMP activity-based travel demand model (ABM). The recommendations address both conceptual and practical considerations associated with the…
Model Integration
SANDAG has developed an extensive suite of analytic tools, including regional economic and demographic forecasting models, a land-use model, an activity-based travel demand model, and numerous other supporting tools and databases. These individual models and tools exchange information and collectively comprise the regional long-term forecasting model system, although each model component was executed individually, and…
Regional Plan Evaluation Criteria and Performance Measures
Over the past few years, SANDAG has been developing new analytic tools and capabilities. Two of the most significant additions to SANDAG’s analysis tool kit include the development and implementation of a CT-RAMP activity-based model system and the development and implementation of a PECAS land-use model. In order to help staff make maximal use of…
Active Transportation Model Enhancements
RSG is leading a team making active transportation related enhancements to SANDAG’s activity-based model system. These enhancements include the development of a bicycle route choice model and improved pedestrian pathbuilding capabilities that use the regional “all streets” network and are sensitive to detailed network and demographic attributes. The project team built and populated a regional…
Machinery Concept Evaluation and Product Innovation
RSG’s client, a global agricultural machinery manufacturer, was researching new and innovative products to add to their existing product portfolios. While some of these products may be considered the ‘next generation’ of existing product lines; others represented completely new product categories that could fundamentally alter common industry practices. The client lacked the consumer insights to…
UPlan: Transportation Planning Portal Software
Along with key partners, RSG developed the first generation web-based UPlan software for the Utah Department of Transportation. The UPlan system was designed to facilitate information sharing within an agency, between agencies, and between other stakeholders. The system hosts hundreds of GIS layers, data sets, and project documents including proposed project alignments, environmental constraints, demographic…
International Air Travel Itinerary Model
RSG built a web-based and SQL-driven global flight model engine that constructs all possible flight itineraries (up to three connections) under ever-changing input parameters. The tool accommodates hundreds of millions of itinerary combinations and supports service planning for dozens of domestic and international airline companies. The model has helped commercial airlines make strategic decisions on…
The Effects of the Built Environment on Physical Activity
Do the characteristics of a person’s community directly influence their health status and levels of physical activity? With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center and RSG explored this question in a multi-year research effort in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. By following more than 22,000 women over…
A Spatial and Statistical Modeling Framework for Transportation Data Products
RSG partnered with a major mapping firm to develop a suite of proprietary models and technologies for their new line of transportation-based data products. For this, RSG needed to build several custom high-speed models that could operate efficiently at the national scale. Substantial time was allocated to handling immense intermediate data structures generated through the…