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Smart Growth Seminar
Sponsored by: Center for Integrated Transportation Systems Management and National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland
Friday, November 6 Seminar: 2:00-3:00pm Reception: 3:00-3:30pm
2107 Kim Engineering Building University of Maryland, College Park
Integrated Land Use and Transportation Model for Analyzing High Speed Rail, Greenhouse Gases, and sustainable Development in California
Speaker: Dr. Robert A. Johnston
Cookies, coffee, and soft drinks will be provided beginning at 1:45pm.
*************************************************************************** Short Biography
Robert A. Johnston is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California at Davis. He is also a Faculty Researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies there. He has taught land use planning, energy policy, geographic information systems, and impact assessment courses for 34 years.
His major research project currently is the development of a statewide economic model of land use and transportation. This model will be used to evaluate high-speed rail and other major transportation improvements, as well as policies to reduce greenhouse gases in all sectors. He advises State agencies on greenhouse gas policy. In 2006-07 Professor Johnston was on an NAS committee that issued a book on the state of travel modeling in the U.S. He recently developed a model for projecting energy use and greenhouse gases from general plans.
Abstract
Prof. Bob Johnston will talk about the Integrated Urban Model being developed for California. This model projects economic activity and floorspace consumption in about 500 zones and then disaggregates those land uses into 160 million 50m gridcells, to give a fine-resolution map that can be used for impact assessments of noise, runoff, habitats, etc. The land use model is run with the Statewide Travel Model every five years, so that changes to the transport system can be evaluated, as well as land use policies, such as compact growth.
Policies to be evaluated include the High Speed Rail proposal, various policies to reduce greenhouse gases, and other sustainable development proposals. Impacts of interest to various groups include: Housing affordability, wages, exports, new development footprint, habitat fragmentation, human health, and others. This model set gives measures of economic welfare for households by income class and for employees by occupation and so can be used for equity analysis, as well as economic efficiency. This Event is For: Public • Campus • Clark School • All Students • Graduate • Undergraduate • Faculty • Staff • Post-Docs • Alumni • Employers • Corporate
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