Case Studies
Take a look at the wide range of ways that the TREDIS® suite of products is being applied. The following success stories and case studies demonstrate how public organizations and private consultants have used the TREDIS models and tools to their advantage for addressing a wide range of problems. The case studies span highways, seaports, freight railroads, high speed trains, emerging technologies, and more.
Transportation Economic Impact (TREDIS)
- TREDIS Extension: Sun Corridor Value Impact Analysis
Arizona MPOs - Texas Long Range Plan
TexasDOT - Michigan Mobility Plan
Michigan DOT - California Transportation Plan - including economic impacts
California DOT - Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area - enhanced MetroScan model
University of Sydney, Australia - Uber in the Economy
Uber Technologies - Economic Impacts of Infrastructure Investment: Forecasting the Effects of VTA’s Traffic Relief and Road Repair Measure
Bay Area Council Economic Institute - Economic Impact of Utah's Unified Plan
Utah Mobility Coalition - California Statewide Transportation Plan 2040
California Department of Transportation - Economic Impact of Vermont System Preservation
Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) - Cost-Benefit & Revenue Forecasting for Policymakers
Texas A&M Transportation Institute for Texas DOT - Bay Area Regional Transportation and Land Use Plans
San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Commission - Michigan Statewide Rail Plan
Michigan Department of Transportation - Chicago Regional Long-Range Plan
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning - Richland County (SC) Transportation Plan
Miley and Associates (with Moore Data) for Richland County - Fort Worth Infrastructure Fee Policy
Fort Worth City and Chamber of Commerce - Virginia Long Range Multi-modal Transportation Plans
Virginia Department of Transportation - Maine: Long Range Plan
Maine Department of Transportation - Vancouver Gateway Transportation Plan
Greater Vancouver Gateway Council
- North Carolina Project Prioritization
North Carolina Department of Transportation - Kentucky Transporation Cabinet Prioritization and Scoring Program
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet - COMPASS Models and Other Technical Tools
COMPASS (Boise) MPO - Pikes Peak Integrated Highway Prioritization System
Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments - Kansas Highway Project Selection Process
Kansas Department of Transportation - Wisconsin Major Highway Selection Process
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
- Mid-States Corridor
Indiana DOT - Ports to Plains Corridor
Texas DOT - I-10 Broadway Curve Reconstruction and Expansion
Maracopa Association of Governements, AZ DOT - Virginia Transportation Alliance (Washington, DC Area)
2030 Group - Toronto-West and Niagara-Toronto Multimodal Corridor Studies
Ontario Ministry of Transportation - I-70 Dedicated Truck Lanes
Indiana DOT, Illinois DOT, Ohio DOT, Missouri DOT - I-95 Corridor: Mid-Atlantic Rail Operations
I-95 Corridor Coalition - Northeast CanAm Connections
Committee of Nine US States and Canadian Provinces
- Nevada Statewide Freight Program Assessment
Nevada Department of Transportation - Andrews to Murphy Rail Reactivation Study
North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Division - Proposed Closing of the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock, MN
Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities - Missouri Freight Industry Studies
Missouri Department of Economic Development - Chicago Railroad Acquisition
Metropolis Strategies (formerly CM 2020) - Chicago Freight Plan
Metropolis Strategies (formerly CM 2020)
- Maryland Purple Line Transit
The Center for Smart Growth - Las Vegas “Big Move” Mobility Plan
Las Vegas Area MPO - EBP Use of TREDIS for Omaha Area
EBP for Omaha Council Bluffs Metrolpolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) - New York MTA Economic Concequences of Proposed Pandemic-Related Cutbacks
NYU Rudin Center for Transportation and Appleseed - Economic Benefits and Impacts of Monorail from Frederick to Shady Grove along I-270
Prepared for High Road Foundation, 2020 - Ultra High-Speed Ground Transportation (UHSGT)
AECOM for Washington State Department of Transportation - Andrews to Murphy Rail Reactivation Study
North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Division - Sydney, Australia – Bus Rapid Transit
Transport for New South Wales - Return of Investment from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Regional Transit Plan
Itasca Project - Atlanta Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal
Bleakly Associates for Central Atlanta Progress - Economic Impact of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority...
The University of Georgia - Midwest High Speed Rail
The Economic Impacts of High Speed Rail, Midwest High Speed Rail Association - GO Transit (Toronto) Rail Electrification Study
MetroLinx, Government of Ontario - Durham, Ontario: Public Transit Alternatives
Durham Region Transit - South Coast Commuter Rail Service
Massachusetts Department of Transportation - APTA: Economic Impact of Public Transportation Investment
American Public Transportation Association - Chicago RTA - Public Transit
Chicago Regional Transportation Authority - California: High-Speed Train
California High Speed Train Authority - Amtrak Service Expansion in Kansas
Kansas DOT
- Arizona Highway 202
Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), Pima Association of Governments (PAG) and Sun Corridor MPO - Kansas Managed Toll Lanes
Kansas DOT - Resilience – Highway 101 (CA)
California DOT - Illiana Corridor Economic Impact Study
Indiana Finance Authority - Economic Impact of Ohio River Bridges
Indiana Finance Authority - Congestion Pricing: Economic Impact of Tolling
Oregon Department of Transportation - Economic Impacts of Express Toll Lanes in the Chicago Region
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning - I-5 Columbia River Crossing
David Evans & Associates - Appalachian Development Highways
Appalachian Regional Commission - Portland, OR: Cost of Congestion
Portland Business Alliance, Port of Portland, Metro and Oregon DOT - Oregon: Statewide Highway Plan
Oregon Business Council
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- APTA Transit Calculator – Members of the American Public Transportation Association calculate and show the wider economic impact of their payroll, capital investment and operations spending using the Transit Economic Tool available through their member portal. (https://www.apta.com/research-technical-resources/my-economic-impact-tool). Non-members can access the same web-based tool as TREDTransit from TREDIS Software.
- Airport Calculator – Several state DOTs are developing custom systems for calculating and updating measures of the wider economic impact of airports within their state. These custom systems are all based on the same core TREDAir airport economic calculator. The TREDAir calculator is also available for single airports directly from TREDIS Software.
- Washington State Airport Economic Impact Calculators
Washington State DOT has contracted with EBP to create two economic impact calculators for assessing the impacts on employment, productivity, and business output due to changes in airport operations, capital spending, and employment for individual airports and for groups of airports within a specified region. More info. - Colorado Dynamic Economic Aviation Impact Calculator
EBP has developed a “Dynamic Aviation Economic Impact Calculator” as part of a system wide aviation study for Colorado DOT.
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