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Will AVs increase vehicular capacity and reduce delays on freeways? We conducted research to test this hypothesis using traffic simulation models with varying levels of congestion and AV fleets.

VTOL craft are likely to face regulatory and technological hurdles before moving from early testing to widespread use. Read on to explore the potential benefits and limitations.

Transportation Network Companies (TNCs)
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Learn how we need to adapt policy and design to accommodate the changing transportation landscape.

Discover how to estimate a project’s VMT and GHG emissions using VMT+ designed to answer questions for both land use and infrastructure development projects.

Our Multimodal Level of Service (MMLOS) Toolkit provides qualitative measures to address client goals, as well as issues ignored in traditional vehicle LOS analysis.

MainStreet translates our ASAP tools to a web application with intuitive visualizations of outputs and provides a clear understanding of analysis.

PersonDelay+ builds upon previous MMLOS methodologies by increasing transparency in the analysis and better informing decision makers and stakeholders of trade-offs.

Ridership+ enhances system-level perspectives of regional travel models with a focus on station-level planning and design strategies, to integrate transit into the community.

MXD+ utilizes research that identifies key relationships between modes of travel and the built environment to more accurately predict vehicle trip generation from MXDs.

Reliability+ transforms data from a variety of transit data sets into versatile transit performance metrics used to inform agencies of segments for improvement along routes.

StreetScore+ calculates comfort for people bicycling and walking and allows users to easily compare designs and effectively convey project benefits to stakeholders.

The one-step 3D printing process could reduce the cost of manufacturing and need for extensive assembly work. Explore the potential benefits and drawbacks.

We developed an innovative, objective, GIS-based tool known as Active+ for project prioritization within bicycle and pedestrian planning.

Explore our findings from a recent operational simulation analysis of ART for the proposed conventional Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lanes in San Francisco.