City of Bellevue, City of Kirkland, City of Redmond (BKR) Peer Review

Table of Contents

• 1.0 Introduction
  • 1.1 Disclaimer
  • 1.2 Acknowledgments
  • 1.3 Report Purpose
  • 1.4 Report Organization
• 2.0 Overview of the City of Bellevue, City of Kirkland, and City of Redmond (BKR) Model
  • 2.1 BKR Model Background
  • 2.2 Regional Characteristics
• 3.0 Expectations of a New BKR Model
  • 3.1 Existing Model
  • 3.2 Future Model Update
  • 3.3 Goals for the Current Peer Review
• 4.0 Peer Review Discussion
  • 4.1 Review of Model Design Plan
    • 4.1.1 TAZ System and BKR Model Regional Boundary
    • 4.1.2 Land-Use and Sociodemographic Data
    • 4.1.3 Bicycle Network and Assignment
    • 4.1.4 Transit Modeling
    • 4.1.5 Highway Network and Assignment
    • 4.1.6 Multimodal Accessibility Measures
    • 4.1.7 Auto Ownership Model
    • 4.1.8 Home-Based Trip Purposes
    • 4.1.9 Mode Choice
    • 4.1.10 Trip Distribution
    • 4.1.11 Number of Time Periods
    • 4.1.12 Hybrid Modeling Approach
    • 4.1.13 Interfacing with PSRC’s ABM
  • 4.2 Concerns and Benefits of Adopting PSRC’s Activity-Based Model
    • 4.2.1 Simulation Variation
    • 4.2.2 Run Times
    • 4.2.3 Model Complexity
    • 4.2.4 Benefits of Adopting PSRC’s ABM
• 5.0 Peer Review Panel Recommendations
  • 5.1 Stand-Alone Enhanced/Hybrid Trip-Based Model
  • 5.2 Incrementally Add Components to Existing Trip-Based Model
  • 5.3 Adopt PSRC’s ABM
  • 5.4 Other Recommendations and Next Steps
• Appendix A List of Peer Review Panel Participants
  • A.1 Peer Review Panel Members
  • A.2 BKR and Affiliated Agency Staff
  • A.3 TMIP Peer Review Support Staff
• Appendix B Peer Review Panel Meeting Agenda
• Appendix C Peer Review Panel Member Biographies
  • C.1 Billy Charlton, Puget Sound Regional Council
  • C.2 Bud Reiff, Portland Metro
  • C.3 Joe Castiglione, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
  • C.4 Ken Lindmark, City of Calgary
  • C.5 Kyung-Hwa Kim, Atlanta Regional Council
• Appendix D Documentation Provided to Panel Members by the City of Bellevue and Documents Referenced in this Report

List of Figures

• Figure 1 City of Bellevue, City of Kirkland, and City of Redmond Regional Boundary
• Figure 2 Proposed BKR Model TAZ system