Strategic Highway Research Program

To address the challenges of moving people and goods efficiently and safely on the nation’s highways, Congress has created the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2). SHRP 2 is a targeted, short-term research program carried out through competitively awarded contracts to qualified researchers in the academic, private, and public sectors.

C10A Project

The primary project objective of the C10A project is to make operational a dynamic integrated model–an integrated, advanced travel-demand model with a fine-grained, time-dependent network, and to demonstrate the model’s performance through validation tests and policy analyses. This integrated model system is necessary because most current travel models are not sufficiently sensitive to the dynamic interplay between travel behavior and network conditions, and are unable to reasonably represent the effects of transportation policies such as variable road pricing and travel demand management strategies.

The C10A project partners are developing an integrated, advanced travel demand model with a fine-grained time-sensitive network simulation for the Jacksonville, Florida region. DaySim, an activity-based model system that has been successfully implemented and applied in regions such as Sacramento, Denver, and Seattle provides detailed forecasts of regional household and person travel behavior across the entire day and TRANSIMS is used to provide microsimulation of regional transportation network performance. The EPA’s MOVES software estimates vehicle emissions.