Case Study:

Albany, New York

Application

Impacts Measured

The following impacts of each scenario were measured:

• Land use (total households and employment) by area;
• Accessibility (measured as the travel time between major destinations, by the quickest mode);
• Transit accessibility (person-trips that are transit accessible, and person-trips with transit time advantage);
• Mode shares;
• Vehicle-miles of travel;
• Person-hours of delay; and
• Emissions.

All of these impacts (except for the land use measures) have been established as performance measures within the New Visions process. This core set of performance measures has allowed CDTC to evaluate widely differing projects, including transit, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), land use, and roadway improvement, in common terms.

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