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.

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TREDIS (Impact Analysis)

• Plans and Policies
• Prioritization
• Corridor Alternatives
• Freight
• Transit and Passenger Rail
• Highways

Specialty Products

• Strategy/Risk Scenarios (TREDPLAN)
• Aviation (TREDAir)
• Public Transit (TREDtransit)

Transportation Economic Impact (TREDIS)

Plans and Policies

• California Transportation Plan - including economic impacts
  CTP2050, 2020
  
  
• Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area - enhanced MetroScan model
  MetroScan using TREDIS, 2020
  
  
• 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

Prioritization

• 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

Corridor Alternatives

• 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

Freight

• Nevada Statewide Freight Program Assessment
  Nevada Department of Transportation
  
  
• 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)

Transit and Passenger Rail

• Washington State Cross-border Study
  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

Highways

• Illiana Corridor Economic Impact Study
  Indiana Finance Authority
  
  
• Economic Enhancements to Ohio DOT Statewide Model
  Lochmueller Group
  
  
• 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

Specialty Products

Strategy/Risk Scenarios (TREDPLAN)

• Iowa DOT and Des Moine Area - Right Sizing with TREDPLAN scenario
  
  
• Future of the Interstate Highway System – TREDPLAN scenarios
  
  
• North Carolina Job Training – TREDPLAN for Clean Energy Scenarios
  
  

Public Transportation (TREDTransit)

• 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.
  
  

Aviation (TREDAir) Economy and Energy

• 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.