- Are you & your colleagues interested in a user-friendly forecasting TOOLKIT to examine the BENEFITS AND COSTS of new congestion-abating transportation projects and policies?
- Are you ready for a methodologically sound process to evaluate TRAVEL TIME, RELIABILITY, SAFETY, and EMISSIONS impacts of CAPACITY expansion and OPERATIONAL improvement projects?
Please have your top planning staff join TxDOT’s Project 0-6487 USER WORKSHOP/WEBINAR: “A Toolkit to Evaluate (and Compare) the Benefits of Operational Improvements and Capacity Additions”
Time: Monday, July 11th, 12 noon till 5 p.m., at TxDOT’s Riverside offices (Building 200’s Classroom B, at 200 E. Riverside Drive), in Austin, Texas.
The Toolkit and Guidebook will debut via demonstrations (from 12 noon till 3 pm) using Austin-area project case studies, so that audience members can appreciate the user-friendly Excel interface, the details behind the programs, opportunities for data inputs, and the variety of forecast outputs.
From 3 pm until 5 pm, those wishing to stay on and apply the toolkit to specific projects (e.g., analysis of I-30 tolling in DFW, I-35 expansion in SAN, and I-10 HOT lanes in HOU) will have access to on-site instructors, software and computers.
All participants will have access to digital copies of the toolkit and guidebook.
To reserve seats for this USER WORKSHOP (& WEBINAR), please RSVP to Annette Perrone, U.T. Austin (amp1@mail.utexas.edu.
Attendance can be either in person or by WebEx. Please note that classroom seating is limited, so RSVP early if you plan to attend in person.
Please direct technical questions to Research Supervisor Kara Kockelman (kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu, 512-471-0210), Professor of Transportation Engineering at UT Austin.
Our Project Director is Ron Hagquist (ron.hagquist@txdot.gov).
Please forward this information to other planners who may find this of interest. We look forward to seeing you on July 11th.
