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#28 Safe Mobility and the Intercity Travel Chain

Principal Investigator
Megan Ryerson
Status
Completed
Start Date
Dec. 1, 2016
End Date
May 31, 2017
Project Type
Research Advanced
Grant Program
MAP-21 TSET National (2013 - 2018)
Grant Cycle
TSET - University of Pennsylvania
Visibility
Public

Abstract

Since 2008 airlines in the U.S. have systematically reducing the number of flights flown at airports in small and medium-sized metropolitan areas. My previous research found that anywhere from 0.5%-17% of the daily traffic on interstate highways (depending on the location) is due to travelers driving to access a large, hub airport, termed “leaked passengers” (for example, consider a traveler in Harrisburg driving to Philadelphia airport to access an airport with better service and lower fares). Advances in automotive technology may both decrease the marginal cost per mile of driving and depress the value of time a traveler attributes to their airport access time; in short, advances in automation may further shift intercity travel between small/medium sized metro areas to largest metro areas to the auto.
Description
 I seek to estimate 1) the magnitude of this mode shift, based on different levels and penetration of automated vehicles, 2) the changes in overall intercity transportation safety from the possible shifts to ground transportation, and 3) the changes in network demands, infrastructure needs, and environmental emissions from mode shifts. Through a collaboration with the CHOP Center for Injury Research and Prevention, I am: 1) Collecting data from the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Naturalistic Driving Study to develop distributions of traffic accidents, in frequency and severity, and map these accidents over time and space; 2) Modeling travel behavior – and network loads – on the intercity transportation networks using publicly available Bureau of Transportation Statics Data and models I have previously developed; and 3) Modeling crash frequency and severity on corridors of interest.
Timeline
12/16-2/17 Finalize multimodal models of demand over intercity corridors
2/17-4/17 Operationalize models and estimate changing demands/flows
4/17-5/17 Mine safety data
Strategic Description / RD&T

    
Deployment Plan

    
Planned 3 peer-reviewed papers on the topic; Gave TEDxPenn talk on this topic on April 1, 2017

    
Expected Outcomes/Impacts

    
We expect a full scale dynamic model of intercity transportation demands and flows.

    
Expected Outputs

    

    
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Individuals Involved

    

        
            

                Email
                Name
                Affiliation
                Role
                Position
            

        
        
            
                

                    ransford@seas.upenn.edu
                    Antwi, Ransford
                    University of Pennsylvania
                    Other
                    Student - PhD
                

            
                

                    LoebH@email.chop.edu
                    Loeb, Helen
                    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
                    Other
                    Other
                

            
                

                    mryerson@upenn.edu
                    Ryerson, Megan
                    University of Pennsylvania
                    PI
                    Other
                

            
                

                    rtawfik@wharton.upenn.edu
                    Tawfik, Raouf
                    University of Pennsylvania
                    Other
                    Student - PhD
                

            
    


    
Budget


    
    
Amount of UTC Funds Awarded
 $90116.00
    
Total Project Budget (from all funding sources)
 $

    
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                        Final Report
                        
                            28_-_Final_Report.pdf
                        
                        June 13, 2019, 5:02 a.m.
                    

                    
                
                    
                    

                        Publication
                        
                            Isolating high-priority metro and feeder bus transfers using smart card data
                        
                        Dec. 8, 2020, 12:12 a.m.
                    

                    
                
                    
                    

                        Publication
                        
                            Modeling Information Propagation in General V2V-enabled Transportation Networks
                        
                        Dec. 8, 2020, 12:29 a.m.
                    

                    
                
            
        

    

    
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