1. DVRPC TMIP Peer Review Introduction and Context Oct. 29 th, 2014

2. Planning Context for Modeling & Analysis Introduction to DVRPC and the Office of Modeling and Analysis Main planning partners with example studies 2015-2023 Model Improvement Plan Early feedback and prospective future regional analysis needs

3. Introduction to the Region

4. Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission  Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)  2 States  9 Counties  351 Municipalities  5.6 Million Population  3,800 sq. miles  ~115 employees Activities –  Long Range Plan (LRP)  Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)  Wide range of planning and technical support for regional partners

5. DVRPC Region - Transportation System & Land Use Multimodal – 125+ bus lines, 4 Heavy rail, 9 LRT/Streetcar, 14 Regional Rail, Amtrak 18 Bridges (mostly toll) connecting NJ & PA 2 Major toll highways, numerous non-tolled (but no HOV) Center City Philadelphia is still the region’s core and largest activity center Several other urban activity centers – Trenton, Camden, etc. Significant suburban activity centers – King of Prussia, Rt. 1 Corridor in Mercer Open rural fringes remain

6. DVRPC Region – Transportation System Some days we have 2 million pedestrian trips on Broad Street… …but hard to forecast when.

7. TRIP MATRIX BY COUNTY (%) 7

8. Residential Single-Family Detached Residential Multi-Family Residential Row Home Residential Mobile Home Manufacturing Light Industrial Manufacturing Heavy Industrial Transportation & Parking Utility Commercial Community Services Military Recreation Agriculture Mining Wooded Vacant Water

9. Introduction to The Office of Modeling and Analysis

10. DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis 8 Full time permanent staff + interns 9 VISUM licenses, 2 VISSIM licenses Responsible for majority of model development and applications in the region

11. DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis  Workstation Type A – 2 ea.  Dual Xeon 8-Core processors (E5-2687W v2)  192 GB RAM  Workstation Type B – 2 ea.  Single Xeon 6-Core processor (E3-1650 v1)  64 GB RAM  Server  Quad Xeon 4-Core processor (E7440)  64 GB RAM

12. DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis  Total Storage Space: 43.8 TB  29.7 TB Used  14.1 TB Free  “Backed up” Space: 29.3 TB  20.9 TB Used  8.4 TB Free  70.37% of data is backed up

13. DVRPC – Office of Modeling and Analysis Data: Surveys (25%) Forecasting: Conformity analysis & Long range planning (15%) Highway alternatives analysis (Ex: US 202 Sec 600) (20%) Transit studies / FTA New Starts (Ex: KoP Rail) (25%) Economic analysis (PATCO Econ Study) (10%) Bike and walk travel estimation (Bike share demand) Microsimulation (5%) Evacuation modeling (10%)

14. Alphabet soup of partners: Main partners for modeling (clients): PennDOT SEPTA (PA side transit agency) DRPA (bridge authority and transit agency) MOTU & PCPC (City of Phila. Agencies) MCPC (Montgomery County)

15. 8 Year Improvement Plan Modeled after last plan Input from: Planning partners Staff TMIP peer review

16. Planning Context – Top 3 1. What we do well now – keep doing (well) 2. Operational level tools – transit and auto 3. Good data, new data

17. Planning Context – External Feedback + Continued support for current tasks + DTA for signal timing and other operational analysis + Excitement for transit operations model (25 uses/year) + Support for data collection (counts, NPT data, etc.) - Limited need for predictive LU model

18. Planning Context – Internal Feedback + Model results and survey results viewers (democratization of model and data) + Sketch and operational transit, bike, ped tools + Strong interest in integrated LU-Transp. Models + More metrics than just TT, congestion (health impacts, safety impacts, etc.) + Pavement condition and connected vehicles + Better truck modeling, including economic measures

19. Planning Context – Internal Feedback + Easy mesh with microsimulation + Easier use of TIM + Traffic impact analysis + Signal optimization capabilities + Need to be able to model CMP strategies (whether TDM, or other tool)

20. Planning Context – Us Modelers + Continue to do great “traditional” studies (new highway and transit major capacity studies) + Bring the ABM on-line on-time and within budget, and in a way where staff is completely comfortable with the model + Enhance the efficiency and ease of modeling, esp. in sharing results with non-modelers + Match analysis with planning needs – i.e. more operational level tools + Ability to model tolling important (but, not most important) ~ some type of LU model for LRP

21. Travel Models - Overview TIM1.0 First VISUM model, completed in 2009 TIM 2.0 “Best-in-class” 4-step model Networks carry forward TIM 2.1 & TIM 2.2 Minor bug fixes and improvements Tim 3.0 Fully disaggregate microsimulated activity based