This study’s goal is to develop an analytical framework to apply the CGE model in the analysis of freight mode shifts through the simulations of plausible impacts of such change. The framework developed in this study can also be applied to the analysis of the effects of fuel price increase or policy measures such as carbon tax
Illinois Transportation Research Center, Illinois Department of Transportation
This project explores these opportunities and through literature review, interviews, surveys, field observation and field-testing develops recommendations to IDOT for the acquisition and use of these technologies. Evaluation criteria will be identified and an evaluation methodology developed in the course of the project.
Illinois Department of Transportation, National University Rail Center (NURail)
Present research and implementation options as a foundation for future efforts by interested organizations to consider and adopt strategies and methods to shift more deliveries to off-peak times.
Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI)
The purpose of this report is to examine the transportation costs of sprawling places in the context of the housing-transportation cost trade-off. The line of reasoning within this study stems from the housing-transportation trade-off. The proposition is that households have a portion of their budget that they allocate to the sum of housing and transportation costs.
The research for this paper has been guided by this goal: everyone in the Chicago area should have integrated, ubiquitous and affordable mobility options, while public and private resources are used efficiently and effectively toward that end.
Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida, University of Illinois at Chicago Chancellor’s Discovery Fund for Multidisciplinary Research
The aim of this empirical study is to provide policy insights into integrating EV infrastructure development with transit systems. While the existing EV charging structure has often been driven by the private sector to facilitate EV adoption, this study promotes transit uses and EV adoption at the same time. With a focus on multi-modal trips, this study explores opportunities related to underutilized parking spots that are suitable for both EV charging and transit connections, either on site or in proximity to transit stations.
Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI)
This paper studies strategic level train operation planning on shared use passenger and freight rail corridors. We explicitly consider passenger schedule delay and freight foregone demand as a function of train schedules, which are largely ignored in previous research. In particular, incorporating passenger schedule delay makes the passenger train scheduling a quadratic integer programming problem.
Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI), Center for Transportation Research (CUTR)
The objective of this study was to examine ways in which integrating transportation modes may improve mobility in the region. The study is needed due to the high levels of congestion on roadways in northeastern Illinois.
Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI), Regional Transportation Authority
The research team collaborated with the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Committee to conduct a transit needs assessment of elderly and disabled residents and inventory of existing services in order to identify gaps in service and opportunities for coordination.
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration
Project Duration
2020-01-06 — 2021-01-04
Train following control algorithms developed through this research are critical to future attempts to increase capacity and efficiency through advanced train control systems with moving blocks.
National Center for Mobility Management, Federal Transit Administration
It was the objective of this report to shed light on these mobility management networks at the state level with the help of an electronic survey of state mobility managers and affiliated stakeholders. The survey was sent to 49 transportation professionals, each representing a different state. A key finding: Strong political backing is necessary as evidenced by the fact that most networks were brought into existence with legislative action, with the network being led by the respective state DOTs.
The study reveals how some alternative modes’ travel information are limited or unavailable in the traditional travel time skim matrix, which must be taken in to account in our mode choice models. Also, statistics regarding available alternatives and the constraints people encounter when making a choice are presented and considered accordingly. In order to examine the importance of accurate alternative information for mode choice modeling, two mode choice models were then developed for comparison
This report provides a descriptive summary and assessment of aggregate survey responses. Findings are presented in four parts: recent experience with extreme weather; perception of weather and climatic risks; assessment of organizational priority, capacity and challenge of managing extreme weather; organizational responses and adaptation to extreme weather events.
Cook County’s fatality rate per population was only exceeded by three other counties Williamson, Kankakee and Effingham. In suburban Chicago, McHenry and DuPage had fatality rates less than one-third of the rate in Cook County. On a national scale, DuPage has the second lowest rate among counties with over half a million people. When the degree of walking is considered Cook County falls within the middle of the Chicago-area counties. The lowest rates are in DuPage and Will Counties and the highest are in Kane and Will Counties.
Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), National University Rail Center (NURail), Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative
The objective of this study was to contribute to the still limited research on pedestrian and cyclist safety at rail grade crossings by expanding the scope of a previous study (Metaxatos and Sriraj, 2013) to include rail grade crossings in metropolitan Chicago with rail operations by the Chicago Transit Authority.
