 Passenger: Bus & Rail - TREDIS reflects the unique ways that rail and bus services can affect urban and regional economies. Besides showing economic impacts of travel time and cost savings, TREDIS can also calculate the economic impact of changes affecting labor market areas, reliability, mode switching, road congestion, business productivity and supplier industries. Examples of use: Chicago RTA and METRA, Toronto MetroLinx, California High SpeedTrain.
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- Freight : Truck & Rail - TREDIS incorporates detailed commodity and trade flow information to show how transportation projects and plans affect local industries. TREDIS can calculate the impacts of changes in access and connectivity to intermodal terminals as well as changes in same-day delivery markets and supply chain reliability. Examples of use: Massachusetts Freight Plan, Wisconsin Freight Study, Gulf Coast Freight Rail District.
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- Comprehensive State and Regional Plans - The multi-modal features of TREDIS allows planning agencies to show the full range of impacts and benefits associated with area plans. For instance, TREDIS can show how congestion reduction affects not just travel times, but also schedule reliability and business delivery areas, worker job opportunities and intermodal access. Examples of state use: Maine Multimodal Plan, Oregon Statewide Plan, Appalachian Development Highway System; Regional use: Vancouver (BC) Gateway Plan, Portland (OR) Long Range Plan, Chicago Metropolis Freight Plan.
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- Project Selection and Prioritizing - The TREDIS framework can calculate Benefit/Cost Ratios and Economic Impacts in terms of traveler benefit, freight system user benefits, wider economic development impacts and the social value of energy and environmental benefits. These effects can be calculated from local, regional, state or national perspectives. Examples of Use: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Transportation and Kansas DOT.
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Highway and Rail Corridor Studies - TREDIS is popular for evaluating alternatives for individual corridors, including both highway and rail-based options. The system provides flexibility in defining infrastructure or service alternatives with different vehicle occupancy and speed/performance characteristics. Examples of use: I-95 Corridor, PA I-80 Corridor, NY Rt. 12 Corridor, Ontario Niagara Corridor, Northeast CanAm Connections. ...Read More...
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Ports: Air, Intermodal, and Marine - TREDIS provides the capability to assess improvements in intermodal efficiency to show how changes at airports, marine ports and surface/land-side transportation connections affect both local industries and the regional economy. TREDIS can calculate the economic impacts and provide scenario-based benefit cost assessments of proposed changes in port or terminal capacity, activities and services, as well as market access connectivity and delivery reliability. Examples of use: Virginia Ports, Gulf Coast District, Port of Portland (OR) and CanAm Connections study. ...Read More...
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