GIS Applications for

Transportation Planning
Presented to
GIS Jam Session
ASMC 2004: Pioneering Our Alaska
Future
02/11/2004
Presentation Themes

• Technical applications supporting

long-range planning (Anchorage
LRTP)
• Intelligent Map Books
• Interactive (map-centric) Reports
20-Year Blueprint for Transportation
Analysis Supported By Travel
Demand Model

• Trip Generation
• Trip Distribution
• Mode Choice
• Route Choice
Relations Based on Household
Travel Survey (Who We Are)
Variable Expanded
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Total 94,822
Households
Total Persons 250,522
Persons per 2.64
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Total Workers 141,109
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Total Vehicles 191,421

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Relations Based on Household
Travel Survey (What We Do)

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To/ From To/ From Personal Serve
Shopping Recreation Eat Out Other
Work School Bus Passenger

<15 min 41.9% 47.8% 56.2% 65.5% 49.1% 56.5% 62.1% 49.0%
15-30 min 49.4% 47.8% 37.4% 29.1% 39.6% 38.3% 34.2% 42.7%
31-60 min 7.6% 3.6% 4.9% 3.8% 6.2% 2.8% 3.4% 6.0%
60+ min 1.1% 0.7% 1.5% 1.6% 5.0% 2.4% 0.3% 2.3%
What Do We Need To Know?

•How People Make Decisions

•What Location Factors Influence
Decision Making
 Develop Descriptive Variables
Employment (SIC Classifications) – Address Based
Retail
Service
Agriculture, forestry, fish & mine Land Use & Other Location Attributes
Construction Local Intersections
Manufacturing Hourly Parking Cost
Daily Parking Cost
Transportation Monthly Parking Cost
Wholesale
Financial Parcel Based (Number, Total Area & Average
Government Size)
Other Residential
Commercial
Accessibility (Employment, Households & Mixed Use, Industrial
Local Intersections) Vacant
Other
¼ Mile Total recreational acres
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1 Mile Households
Level of Service

Walk to bus time/distance

Employment

• 7,000 Locations
• 155,000 Employees
Households
Urban Forum - Sidewalks & Paths
Parking Costs
Not your typical spatial analysis?

What is the relationship between

observed survey and derived GIS
environment data
Proximity Analysis
Proximity Analysis
Accessibility
Build Statistical Behavior Models

•Quantitative verses Qualitative

•Objective measures applied
•Geocode, Geocode, Geocode
•Location Matters!
 Sample Model (Mode Choice)

Conditional (fixed-effects) logistic regression Number of obs = 9464

LR chi2(13) = 3160.45
Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
Log likelihood = -1331.4578 Pseudo R2 = 0.5427

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choice | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
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in_veh_time (m_time) | -.0751425 .0093433 -8.04 0.000 -.0934551 -.0568299
out_veh_time(ovtim4) | -.5719232 .1218245 -4.69 0.000 -.8106948 -.3331517
o_pef_ext/int_walk | .0005306 .0001802 2.94 0.003 .0001774 .0008837
od_retail_ratio | 1.762788 .6342401 2.78 0.005 .5197002 3.005876
income-transit only | -.0237387 .0057404 -4.14 0.000 -.0349895 -.0124878
log-totalemp-1m | .0864845 .0404308 2.14 0.032 .0072417 .1657274
parking cost | -.0084478 .0036181 -2.33 0.020 -.0155392 -.0013565
no-car | 2.42729 .2257827 10.75 0.000 1.984764 2.869816
drive-w-pass constant| -2.260445 .0925487 -24.42 0.000 -2.441837 -2.079053
passenger constant | -2.299982 .0942224 -24.41 0.000 -2.484655 -2.11531
transit constant | -5.259264 .5564069 -9.45 0.000 -6.349802 -4.168727
walk constant | -4.406498 .470499 -9.37 0.000 -5.328659 -3.484337
bike constant | -7.229919 .5408055 -13.37 0.000 -8.289878 -6.169959
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Sample Model Structure
Measuring against observed
Measuring against observed
Theme 1 Questions?
ArcGIS Map Book Demo

Fire Map Book Toolbar

New Content View’s

added to the Table of
Contents
Electronic Conditions Reports