For the Jacksonville Transportation Authority in Florida, and as a sub-consultant to WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff, EA Harper developed and tested eight future year scenarios for Jacksonville’s southeast commuter rail project. Work required network coding and modifications of the CUBE-based model – commensurate with FTA standards for new starts funding. Ms. Harper provided the draft documentation for the final […]
EA Harper Consulting recalibrated the mode choice and destination choice model components of the Piedmont Triad Regional Model (PTRM) in Greensboro, NC. Specific tasks required an analysis and merging (using SPSS) of two National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) add-on datasets for the generation of observed mode shares and trip length frequencies, evaluation of travel impedances […]
Using SPSS, Ms. Harper is analyzing the data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (New York) origin destination survey of passengers on the Long Island Railroad. Travel markets and geographic travel patterns are being analyzed (working with AECOM).
Ms. Harper managed the enhancements of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) regional model, in support of Alternatives Analyses in two separate corridors in the Washington, D.C. region. Corridors included the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) in Frederic and Montgomery Counties of Maryland, and the Purple Line (PL) in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, just north […]
The Southeast Regional Council of Governments (SEMCOG) travel demand model was updated to incorporate a new mode choice model and an air passenger model. Ms. Harper (assisting Parsons Brinckerhoff) modified TransCAD scripts to allow for forecasting travel on modes that did not exist in the previous model (commuter rail, light rail and bus rapid transit), incorporating […]
