Emissions Benefits of Land Use Planning Strategies

FHWA TOPR 29

December 20, 2004

prepared for: Federal Highway Administration, USDOT
prepared by: The Louis Berger Group, Inc.

Final Project Report

Table of Contents

1.0 Executive Summary of Project

• 1.1 Executive Summary
• 1.2 Project Contact Information
  • 1.2.1 Federal Highway Administration
  • 1.2.2 The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
• 1.3 Acknowledgements

2.0 Background and Purpose of Project

• 2.1 Project Need
• 2.2 Project Description

3.0 Review of Literature and Existing Practice

• 3.1 Literature Review Sources
• 3.2 Literature Database Record Layout and Format
• 3.3 Case Studies
• 3.4 Significant Findings
  • 3.4.1 First Linkage: Land Use Strategies and Travel Behavior
  • 3.4.2 Second Linkage: Changes in Travel Behavior and Emissions
  • 3.4.3 Research Literature Issues and Limitations

4.0 Critical Analysis: State-of-the-Practice Methods

• 4.1 Evaluation Methodology
• 4.2 Evaluation Criteria
• 4.3 Evaluation Results
• 4.4 Summary: State-of-the-Practice Methods for Predicting Mobile Source Emissions Changes from Land Use Alterations

5.0 Directions for Improvements: Research and Accessibility

• 5.1 User Community Profiles
• 5.2 Research Needs and Model Improvements
  • 5.2.1 Improvements to Transportation and Land Use Data
  • 5.2.2 Modifications to Travel Demand Modeling
  • 5.2.3 Modifications to Mobile Emissions Estimation
• 5.3 Accessibility
  • 5.3.1 Training
  • 5.3.2 Data Requirements
  • 5.3.3 Technical Tools
  • 5.3.4 Information Dissemination

6.0 Definitions of Terms Used

Appendices

• A. Data Resources
• B. Annotated Bibliography Database (MS-Access, CD-ROM)
• C. Case Study Index and Summaries
• D. Land Use Characteristics and Travel Variable Elasticities

List of Exhibits

• 3-1. Literature Record Layout
• 3-2. Case Study Summary Matrix
• 3-3. Two-Stage Process of Land Use and Emissions
• 3-4. Common Research Conclusions On Land Use and Travel Behavior
• 3-5. Connectivity and Measures of Connectivity
• 4-1A (Map). Location of Initial Agency Contacts
• 4-1B ( Table). Location of Initial Agency Contacts
• 4-2. Evaluation Criteria for State-of-the-Practice Models for Quantifying the Emissions Benefits of Land Use Strategies
• 4-3. Approaches to Quantifying Emissions Benefits from Land Use Strategies
• 4-4. Categories of Data Collection
• 5-1. Elasticity-Only and Elasticity-Threshold Relationship
• 5-2. Ranges of Percent Change from Case Studies