Measuring land use and transportation performance in the Montreal metropolitan region

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Accessibility is a comprehensive measure of land use and transportation planning performance. Accordingly predicting effects of changes in land use and transportation systems over time is essential in generating accurate accessibility measures in the future. In this research grant I offer the generation of various accessibility measures accompanied by detailed land use and transportation change models that enables predicting changes in the urban system over time. These accessibility measures will be integrated in the land use change models to predict changes in the Montreal region. Measures of accessibility and land use change models will be used at the end of the project to generate a sensitivity analysis testing various scenarios being introduced by the Montreal transportation plan and showing the effects of partially implementing this plan on land use and transportation systems in the future. The goal of this project is to highlight accessibility as a measure for land use and transportation performance and show how it can be used in evaluating various transportation plans and policies through utilization of land use and transportation change models.