Urbansim is a land use forecasting model developed by the University of Washington. Although the technology is promising, it had not been fully applied and validated in a large urban area, and therefore the validity of the approach was unknown. The MPO in Salt Lake City, Utah has completed an initial application of the Urbansim model. TMIP supported this effort by providing funding the SLC MPO and the University of Washington, to assist in the application and to create a full set of documentation, which includes data collection and assembly, model calibration and validation info. The project was peer reviewed. The results are useful for the greater planning community, helping practitioners understand what is required to implement the Urbansim model in a large urban area, and also includes peer reviewer recommendations.
The documentation is posted on the UrbanSim website:
http://www.urbansim.org/projects/utah/UrbanSim_Final_Report.pdf
To communicate the results of a full-scale application of Urbansim to model users
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