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Research in transportation systems integration aims to provide a research and analytical platform for integrating across the other three research areas. A specific research project, for example, will provide a better understanding of how urban development might be affected, on the local and regional scale, by the various transportation services and modes being examined by ITS and high-speed rail research.
The objective is to develop new analytical techniques for understanding the interaction between transportation services and development patterns and leverage that knowledge to enhance urban and regional sustainability. The research will also aim to develop a platform for integrating relevant research elements from each of the modal thrust areas, with the ultimate goal of deriving and refining a unified framework for sustainable transportation planning, including financial, institutional, technological, and spatial dimensions.
The goals are two-fold: to pioneer new integrated planning techniques that are capable of integrating the different spatial scales of relevance (i.e., local, regional, national); and, to demonstrate the application of those techniques by integrating across the transportation modes addressed in the other research areas.
Project: Strategic Options for Integrating Transportation Innovations and Urban Revitalization (SOTUR)
(October 2007 - July 2010)
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