For the Omaha Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA), EBP applied TREDIS to assess the economic returns associated with existing and potential future transit services within the Omaha region. The project assessed the transportation and economic implications of two alternative future transportation and development scenarios: a business as usual scenario that continues the current pattern of sprawling development with no further investment in transit and a better transit and smarter growth scenario with high-quality BRT corridors that would support denser patterns of development in transit-accessible locations along the Omaha/Bellevue North-South Spine as well as the 72nd and 84th Street Spine.
The report notes that “transit and land use scenarios were analyzed using the MAPA travel demand model and the TREDIS® "Transportation Economic Development Impact System" to understand the long-term economic value of coordinated transit and land use strategies”.
