Development of a high-resolution statewide socio-demographic, land use and

economic development framework for transportation planning

The main objective of this research is to develop a standardized high resolution state-wide sociodemographic, land use and economic development model framework that will provide inputs for current transportation planning models. The developed framework is analogous to the Florida Standard Urban Transportation Model Structure (FSUTMS) model. The research team considered three groups of variables for inclusion in the model framework including sociodemographic, land use and economic development variables. For the variables identified, the research team processed data from various publicly available sources at the spatial resolution of interest including U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, Florida Department of Revenue, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, and FDOT Roadway Characteristics Inventory and Florida Geographic Data Library. The research team has finalized the model framework and generated future forecasts for the selected variables. The outputs of this research effort include data products of sociodemographic, land use and economic development variables for every five-year period from 2025 through 2050 for the entire state in three spatial resolutions (block group, census tract and county).

Webinar: High-resolution statewide socio-demographic, land use and economic

development framework

Project Overview and Data Product Demonstration

Presented by
Naveen Eluru, Professor
Lauren Hoover, PhD student
Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
University Of Central Florida

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