Preface

In urban areas worldwide, planners have long aimed to meet the present and future housing and commuting needs of residents through effective land-use and transportation planning. Land use patterns influence transportation needs, while transportation and land use affect the accessibility of places and regions. This interaction has received significant attention in research and professional practice, with various qualitative and quantitative models exploring it.

However, despite the wealth of theories and methods describing this relationship, there is a lack of comprehensive educational resources on land use and transportation models. This gap often requires instructors to rely on multiple texts within the same course. Furthermore, only about one-third of existing transportation planning courses in the US covers this topic extensively. This limitation also impacts Open Educational Resources (OER) materials, hindering the ability to remix and reuse content.

Recognizing the importance of addressing these issues, this book is developed as part of the Transportation Planning and Policy certificate program at UTA. It aims to fill this educational gap by providing students with a zero-cost open textbook that can replace multiple textbooks previously used in the Transportation Land Use Modeling and Policy graduate course. Additionally, it serves as an open educational resource for instructors, offering a basis for course syllabi on land use/transportation modeling and policy in urban planning.

The course itself aims to introduce students to the integrated land use/transportation planning process at the metropolitan level. It covers various transportation/land use concepts, specific transportation models, simulation methods, and topics such as the economic theory of travel demand, land-use models, the UTPS framework for travel demand estimation, disaggregated travel demand models and abstract mode models. The learning objectives include:

•  describe and summarize land-use/transportation forecasting issues,
• explain different transportation forecasting and analysis methods,
• define metropolitan level land use/transportation policy planning and forecasting process,
• identify and compare different Integrated urban analysis models such as SCPM, MEPLAN, PECAS, UrbanSim, and Land Use/ Transportation Demand Model (LU/TDM),
• Compare and explain different types of gravity models, the Lowry model of metropolis and DRAM/EMPAL, four-step transportation demand modeling, including trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment models.

The book chapters correspond to the following course sessions:

1. 1. Introduction to Transportation Land-Use Modeling
   2. A Brief History of Urban Transportation Planning and Key Issues
   3. An Overview of Integrated Land-Use Transportation Modeling Process
   4. Urban Form and Land Use/Transportation Interactions
   5. Land-Use and Transportation Modeling I: Land-Use Analysis
   6. Land-Use and Transportation Modeling II: Lowry Type Models
   7. Land-Use and Transportation Modeling III: Southern California Planning Model (SCPM)
   8. Land-Use and Transportation Modeling IV: MEPLAN, TRANUS, TELUM, and PECAS
   9. Introduction to Transportation Modeling: Travel Demand Modeling and Data Collection
   10. First Step of Four Step Modeling (Trip Generation)
   11. Second Step of Four Step Modeling (Trip Distribution)
   12. Third Step of Four Step Modeling (Mode Choice Models)
   13. Last Step of Four Step Modeling (Trip Assignment Models).