Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter.
Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.
OCR for page 75
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
Next Steps
Institutional Issues
Ken Cervenka, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Larry Blain, Puget Sound Regional Council
Ronald Milone, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Chuck Purvis, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Aichong Sun, Pima Association of Governments
Richard Walker, Portland Metro
Kermit Wies, Chicago Area Transportation Study
Ken Cervenka step after understanding these issues is to better anticipate
and respond to resulting changes in travel needs.
I t is a pleasure to moderate this closing session. We have
an excellent group of speakers, who were asked to
address the following four questions in their remarks.
I was pleased to learn about the increasing prevalence
of tools, such as the population synthesizer and the tour
analysis tools that are now available for use. I wish there
· What did you learn from this conference that you had been more discussion about the transferability of
did not previously know? models from one area to another. I would also have liked
· What were you hoping to learn that is still not fully to have heard more on the use of dynamic traffic assign-
answered? ment at the regional level and risk analysis, including the
· What do you see as the obstacles that most agen- multiple uses of stochastic runs to obtain a better idea of
cies will need to overcome to move forward with more the range of possible outcomes.
advanced land use and travel modeling procedures? I was not able to attend the education session, but it
· What are the expectations of your agencies for seemed to focus on educating modelers. I think we also
moving forward with more advanced land use and travel need to educate policy makers about travel modeling
modeling procedures? tools and techniques, especially the appropriate use of
the results from these models. It is important to build a
Larry Blain better understanding among policy makers about the
benefits of travel models.
M y comments focus on the four questions outlined by
Ken Cervenka, which I thought about as I listened
to speakers during the different sessions. While I did not
The lack of funding and limited staff resources were
two major obstacles discussed in many of the sessions.
Data analysis needs were also noted as obstacles by
learn anything brand new at the conference, a number of many speakers. Data on day-to-day individual travel
things that I have been thinking about were reaffirmed by behavior are critical with the use of disaggregate models.
speakers and by the discussion in the different sessions. Multiday individual travel diaries and other related data
The impact of changing demographics, including the baby collection techniques are needed with disaggregate
boomers moving into retirement and the impact of their models.
retirement on travel behavior, was one of those elements. Another obstacle is the fragmented development of
Other points that were reaffirmed by speakers included models and analysis techniques, with work under way in
the globalization of issues, the resettlement of central busi- many urban areas. While there is communication among
ness districts (CBDs) by higher-income groups, and the different groups, a central focus for sharing information
increasing number of one-person households. The next and consolidating results is lacking. I would suggest that
63
